Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
30 results found in accessibility testing.
- Heuristic evaluation (Expert review, Usability inspection)
- A usability and accessibility evaluation method where trained evaluators systematically assess an interface against a set of recognized principles or guidelines (heuristics) to identify potential prob…
- Manual Accessibility Testing (Manual Testing, Manual Evaluation, Human Testing)
- The process of evaluating web content accessibility through direct human inspection rather than automated tools. Manual testing is essential because many WCAG success criteria cannot be fully evaluate…
- Personalized Accessibility (Personalized Web Accessibility, User-Tailored Accessibility)
- An approach to accessibility evaluation and design that considers the specific disability profile, capabilities, and needs of individual users rather than treating accessibility as a single universal …
- Probabilistic Sampling (Random Sampling, Statistical Sampling)
- A sampling method in which every member of a population has a known, non-zero probability of being selected for the sample. In accessibility evaluation, probabilistic sampling of web pages allows audi…
- Structured Walkthrough (Guided Walkthrough, Accessibility Walkthrough)
- An accessibility evaluation method in which an evaluator is guided through a systematic series of checks using predefined steps, instructions, and heuristics. Unlike a full WCAG conformance review whi…
- Testability (Reliably Human Testable, Machine Testable)
- In the context of accessibility standards, testability refers to the degree to which a guideline or success criterion can be evaluated with consistent, reproducible results — either through automated …
- Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM)
- A standardized methodology developed by the European Web Accessibility Benchmarking Cluster (WAB Cluster) for evaluating the accessibility of websites in a consistent, comparable way. UWEM provides fo…
- Web Crawling (Web Spidering, Web Scraping)
- The automated process of systematically browsing and indexing web pages by following hyperlinks from a starting URL. In accessibility evaluation, web crawlers are used to discover and catalogue pages …
- axe DevTools (axe, axe-core)
- A widely used suite of automated accessibility testing tools developed by Deque Systems, available as browser extensions, command-line tools, and integrable libraries. The axe-core engine is an open-s…
- mobileOK (mobileOK Basic Tests, W3C mobileOK)
- A set of machine-automatable tests published by the W3C to verify conformance with Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The mobileOK Basic Tests define a subset of best practices that can be unambiguously e…