Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
12 results found in accessibility standards.
- ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)
- A non-profit, non-governmental body that accredits US post-secondary programmes in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commi…
- AccessiWeb (AccessiWeb Reference List)
- A French web accessibility methodology and reference list developed by BrailleNet, providing a practical application framework based on WCAG. AccessiWeb translates WCAG success criteria into testable …
- Accessibility Baseline (Baseline, Technology Baseline, WCAG Baseline)
- An accessibility baseline, as used in WCAG 2.0 and later versions, is the set of technologies that a content author assumes are supported and enabled in the user agents (browsers and assistive technol…
- Accessibility Conformance Level (WCAG Conformance Level, Conformance Level)
- Accessibility conformance levels are the tiered ratings defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to indicate the degree to which web content meets accessibility success criteria. WCA…
- Accessibility Maturity (Accessibility Maturity Model, Digital Accessibility Maturity)
- A framework for assessing how well an organization has integrated accessibility into its culture, processes, and products, typically measured across dimensions such as leadership commitment, policy, t…
- Chartability (Chartability Heuristics)
- A set of heuristics for assessing the accessibility of data visualizations, developed by Frank Elavsky and the Dataviz Accessibility group. Chartability provides a systematic framework for evaluating …
- ISO 9241 (ISO 9241-171, Ergonomics of Human-System Interaction)
- An international standard from the International Organization for Standardization covering the ergonomics of human-system interaction. Part 171 (ISO 9241-171:2008) specifically addresses accessibility…
- JIS X 8341-3 (JIS X 8341, Japanese Industrial Standard for Web Accessibility)
- JIS X 8341-3 is the Japanese Industrial Standard for web content accessibility, first published in 2004 by the Japanese Standards Association. The standard was developed with attention to harmonizatio…
- Motor Accessibility (Physical Accessibility, Motor Impairment Accessibility)
- Motor accessibility refers to the design of digital systems and interfaces to be operable by people with physical disabilities affecting movement, strength, coordination, or fine motor control. Releva…
- Standards Harmonization (Standards Harmonisation, Accessibility Standards Alignment)
- The effort to align web accessibility standards and guidelines across different jurisdictions, organizations, and markets to create a unified set of requirements that developers and content creators c…
- Sufficient Techniques (Sufficient Advisory Techniques)
- In the WCAG framework, sufficient techniques are documented methods for meeting a specific success criterion. If a content author correctly implements a sufficient technique, it is enough to satisfy t…
- Web Accessibility (Website Accessibility, Digital Web Accessibility)
- The inclusive practice of ensuring that all people, particularly disabled and older people, can use websites in a range of contexts of use, including with mainstream and assistive technologies. Achiev…