Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
212 results found in Web Accessibility.
- Accessible Name (Accessible Label, Acc Name)
- The text string that assistive technologies such as screen readers use to identify and announce a user interface element. The accessible name is computed by browsers following the W3C's Accessible Nam…
- Accessible Role (ARIA Role, Role)
- An accessible role is a property that defines the type and expected behavior of a user interface element as exposed to assistive technologies through the accessibility tree. Roles communicate what an …
- Accessible Web Design (Accessible Web Authoring, Nonvisual Web Design)
- Accessible web design refers both to the practice of designing webpages that meet accessibility standards (such as WCAG) and — in a second, increasingly important sense — to the practice of enabling p…
- Accessmonkey
- Accessmonkey was a 2007 client-side scripting framework, built on Greasemonkey for Mozilla Firefox, that let users and developers run site-specific JavaScript to repair inaccessible web pages on the f…
- Adaptive Navigation (Adaptive Navigation Support)
- A technique in which a system dynamically modifies the presentation of navigational elements (such as links, menus, or breadcrumbs) based on user characteristics, behaviour, or context. In accessibili…
- Anchor Text (Link Text, Hyperlink Text)
- The visible, clickable text within a hypertext link that is intended to describe the link's destination or purpose. Descriptive anchor text (e.g., "download the annual report") provides clear informat…
- Annotation-based Transcoding (Annotation-driven Transcoding, External Annotation)
- Annotation-based transcoding is a web accessibility technique in which a third party (not the site owner) authors a separate metadata file — the 'annotation' — that describes how to restructure or re-…
- Attention Capture Pattern (Attention Capture, Attention Grabbing Design)
- A design element on a website intentionally crafted to draw users' attention toward content that serves the site's interests rather than the user's goals. Examples include bright promotional banners, …
- Audience Modelling (Audience Modeling, User Modelling)
- The practice of characterizing and formally describing distinct groups of users and their interaction characteristics to inform the design and evaluation of web interfaces. In accessibility, audience …
- Audio CAPTCHA (Audio HIP, Audio Human Interaction Proof)
- An auditory alternative to visual CAPTCHAs, typically presenting distorted spoken letters, numbers, or words that users must transcribe. While intended as an accessible alternative for blind users, re…
- Audio Enriched Links (AEL, Audio Link Preview)
- A JAWS screen reader extension that provides spoken previews of linked web pages before a blind user follows a hyperlink. When activated on a focused link, the system fetches the destination page in t…
- Audio HTML Access (AHA, AHA Framework)
- Audio HTML Access (AHA) is a framework of principles for choosing sounds to use in audio-based HTML interfaces, developed by Frankie James at Stanford University in the late 1990s. The framework provi…
- Aural Browsing (Aural Navigation, Aural Web Browsing)
- Aural browsing refers to the experience of navigating and consuming web content through auditory output, primarily via screen readers that read page content aloud sequentially. Unlike visual browsing …
- Aural CSS (Aural Cascading Style Sheets, CSS Aural Properties, CSS Speech)
- Aural CSS refers to CSS properties designed to control the auditory presentation of web content, originally specified as the "aural" media type in CSS2 and later revised as the "speech" media type in …
- Authoring Tool (Web Authoring Tool, Content Authoring Tool)
- An authoring tool is any software application used to create or modify web content, ranging from code editors and content management systems (CMS) to visual page builders and social media platforms. T…
- Automated Accessibility Testing (Automated Testing, Accessibility Scanning, A11y Testing)
- The use of software tools to programmatically check web content against accessibility guidelines such as WCAG, identifying issues like missing alternative text, insufficient color contrast, empty link…
- Automated accessibility testing (Automated a11y testing, Accessibility checker)
- The use of software tools to automatically evaluate digital content against accessibility standards, checking for issues like missing alt text, colour contrast violations, missing form labels, untagge…
- BETSIE (BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer)
- BETSIE (BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer) was an early web accessibility tool developed by the BBC as a CGI Perl script that produced text-only versions of web pages optimized for users …
- Barrier Walkthrough Method (BW Method, Barrier Walkthrough)
- An accessibility evaluation method developed by Giorgio Brajnik that groups Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) success criteria by user categories such as blind users, people with low vision,…
- Blackboard Ally (Ally)
- A commercial accessibility-checking and alternative-format-generation service from Anthology (Blackboard) that integrates with learning management systems such as Blackboard Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and…