Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

5 results found in Metadata.

Accessibility Annotation (A-Annotation, Accessibility Metadata)
External metadata added to a web page to describe its visual layout structure, content groupings, and element roles for the purpose of improving accessibility without modifying the original page. Acce…
Accessibility Commons (AC Repository, AC Metadata Repository)
A shared metadata repository and schema proposed in 2008 by IBM, the University of Washington, Stony Brook University, and the University of Manchester to let accessibility-remediation research projec…
Accessibility Metadata (A11y Metadata, Accessibility Annotations)
Structured information that describes the accessibility features, hazards, or access modes of digital content. Accessibility metadata can be embedded within content (such as alt text in HTML) or store…
Digital Resource Description (DRD, Resource Accessibility Description)
Digital Resource Description (DRD) is a component of the AccessForAll framework (standardized in ISO 24751 and IMS AccessForAll) that provides a structured way to describe the accessibility properties…
Metadata Repository (Metadata Store, Metadata Registry)
A server-side system that stores and serves descriptive data about other resources — in accessibility contexts, typically information about web pages or their elements that helps assistive technology …