Glossary

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

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Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric (WAQM)
An accessibility evaluation metric that calculates a quantitative score for a website based on automatically generated evaluation reports. WAQM computes the failure rate for each tested page, then der…
Web Complexity (Page Complexity, Website Complexity)
A measure of the technical sophistication and structural density of a web page, typically assessed by the number and types of HTML elements, scripts, embedded objects, and interactive features present…
Web Page Complexity (Page Complexity, Structural Complexity)
A measure of how much a web page contains in terms of interactivity, embedded media, and structural richness. The W3C's WCAG-EM defines complexity through three factors: level of interactivity, source…
Word Error Rate (WER)
A metric used to evaluate the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and captioning systems, calculated as the number of word-level errors (insertions, deletions, and substitutions) divided by…
Words Per Minute (WPM)
A standard measure of speech or reading speed, representing the number of words produced or comprehended in one minute. Typical human speech occurs at 120-180 WPM, average reading speed is 200-250 WPM…