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…