Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in WAI-ARIA.
- ARIA Hidden (aria-hidden Attribute)
- An WAI-ARIA attribute (aria-hidden="true") that removes an element and its descendants from the accessibility tree, making them invisible to screen readers and other assistive technologies while poten…
- ARIA Live Region (Live Region, ARIA Live)
- An ARIA live region is a section of a web page marked with the aria-live attribute that announces dynamic content changes to assistive technologies without requiring user focus to move to the updated …
- ARIA Live Region (Live Region, aria-live)
- A section of a web page marked with the aria-live attribute that is dynamically updated and should be announced by assistive technologies when changes occur, even if the user's focus is elsewhere. Liv…
- Accessibility API Mapping (AAM, Accessibility API Mappings, Acc API Mapping)
- Accessibility API Mappings (AAMs) are W3C specifications that define how the semantics of web content technologies — such as HTML, SVG, and WAI-ARIA — correspond to features in platform accessibility …
- Aria-Live (ARIA Live Region, Live Region)
- An ARIA attribute (aria-live) used to designate regions of a web page whose content may change dynamically, ensuring that assistive technologies announce updates to users without requiring them to nav…
- Live Region (ARIA Live Region, aria-live)
- A section of a web page that is dynamically updated and announced by assistive technologies without requiring the user to navigate to it. Live regions are defined using the WAI-ARIA aria-live attribut…
- Role Attribute (ARIA Role, WAI Role)
- An HTML attribute that defines the purpose or type of a user interface element, communicating its function to assistive technologies. Originally proposed as part of the XHTML namespace-based approach …
- WAI-ARIA (ARIA, Accessible Rich Internet Applications, WAI-ARIA Specification)
- A W3C technical specification that defines a set of HTML attributes (roles, states, and properties) to make dynamic web content and custom user interface widgets accessible to people using assistive t…