Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in Information Accessibility.
- Content Extraction (Web Content Extraction, Text Extraction)
- The process of separating meaningful content from the surrounding structural markup, navigation elements, and boilerplate text on a web page. For assistive technology users, content extraction is valu…
- Conversational Search (conversational information retrieval, chat-based search)
- Conversational search is an approach to information retrieval in which users interact with a system through natural language dialogue rather than keyword queries, enabling multi-turn exchanges that it…
- Coordinated Views (Linked Views, Coordinated Multiple Views, Brushing and Linking)
- A data visualization technique in which multiple representations of the same dataset are displayed simultaneously and kept synchronized, so that actions in one view (such as selecting, filtering, or s…
- Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram, ERD)
- A type of relational diagram used in software engineering and database design to model the conceptual structure of a system by representing entities (objects or concepts), their attributes (properties…
- Floor Plan (Floor Map, Building Plan, Building Layout)
- A floor plan is a scaled diagram of a room or building viewed from above, showing the arrangement of rooms, corridors, exits, and other spatial features. In accessibility contexts, floor plans present…
- Geo-referenced Data (Geospatial Data, Geographic Data, Georeferenced Data)
- Data that is associated with specific geographic locations or regions, such as population statistics by county, crime rates by neighbourhood, or election results by district. Geo-referenced data is ty…
- Information Representation (information artifact, knowledge representation)
- An information representation is any structured artifact that encodes data or knowledge and allows people to interact with that content — examples include documents, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams…
- Intention-Based Description (Intention-Based Graph Description, Purpose-Driven Description)
- An approach to generating accessible descriptions of visual content (particularly graphs and data visualisations) that focuses on communicating what the creator intended to convey rather than exhausti…
- Relational Diagram (Relational Information Display, RID)
- A graphical representation that depicts items (nodes) and the relationships (links) between them using a two-dimensional spatial layout. Common forms include entity-relationship diagrams, flowcharts, …
- Representational Transformation (representation transformation, accessibility transformation)
- Representational transformation is the process of modifying or re-creating a shared information artifact (such as a document, spreadsheet, diagram, or slideshow) to make it accessible to team members …
- Statistical Graph (Statistical Chart, Data Graph, Quantitative Graph)
- A visual representation of numerical or statistical data using geometric elements such as lines, bars, points, or areas to convey patterns, trends, relationships, and comparisons. Common types include…