Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
212 results found in Web Accessibility.
- Web Readability (Online Readability)
- The ease with which web content can be read and understood, encompassing both visual factors (typography, layout, color, responsive design) and linguistic factors (vocabulary, sentence complexity, con…
- Web Segmentation (Page Segmentation, Web Page Segmentation)
- The process of dividing a web page into distinct, meaningful sections or segments based on visual layout, structural markup, or content semantics. Web segmentation is important for accessibility becau…
- Web Transcoding (Content Transcoding, Web Content Transformation)
- The process of automatically transforming web content to improve its presentation or accessibility for specific users or devices. Transcoding techniques can include simplifying page structure, adaptin…
- Web Widget (Widget, UI Widget, Web Component)
- A discrete, interactive user interface element within a web page that allows users to perform specific actions or view dynamic content. Widgets range from simple controls like checkboxes and dropdown …
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind)
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) is a non-profit organization based at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University, founded in 1999 and recognized internationally as a leading …
- WebAnywhere
- A web-based, self-voicing screen reader developed at the University of Washington that enabled blind users to access the web from any computer with an Internet connection and sound output, without ins…
- Windowless Mode (Flash wmode transparent, wmode=transparent)
- Windowless mode is a legacy Adobe Flash rendering option (wmode=transparent or wmode=opaque) in which the Flash player drew into the browser's graphics surface directly rather than into its own dedica…
- Wrapper (Web Wrapper, Data Wrapper)
- In web accessibility and data extraction contexts, a reusable program that maps the visual layout of a web page to its underlying structured dataset by identifying records and fields within the HTML. …
- XForms (W3C XForms)
- XForms is a W3C specification for web forms that separates the purpose of a form (its data model) from its visual presentation, providing richer semantics than traditional HTML forms. Unlike HTML form…
- XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 2.0)
- XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) is a family of W3C specifications that reformulated HTML as an XML application, requiring stricter syntax rules such as properly nested elements, lowercase…
- aDesigner
- aDesigner is an accessibility evaluation tool for web designers, originally released by IBM in the mid-2000s. It combined automated WCAG checking with simulations of low vision (contrast loss, blur, c…
- eMAG (Modelo de Acessibilidade em Governo Eletrônico, Brazilian Digital Accessibility Model)
- The Brazilian government's digital accessibility model (Modelo de Acessibilidade em Governo Eletrônico) that provides mandatory guidelines for how government websites must ensure accessibility and eli…