Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
12 results found in content adaptation.
- 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 …
- CC/PP (Composite Capability/Preference Profiles)
- A W3C framework for describing device capabilities and user preferences using RDF (Resource Description Framework). CC/PP enables content servers to adapt the delivery of web content based on the char…
- Content Rearrangement (Information Rearrangement, Content Reordering, Page Restructuring)
- An accessibility technique in which the content of a web page is automatically reorganised to present the most relevant information first, based on user context, intent, or navigational history. Conte…
- Delivery Context
- Delivery context is a term defined by the W3C Device Independence Working Group to describe the set of attributes that characterize the environment in which web content is delivered and consumed. This…
- Page Segmentation (Web Page Segmentation, VIPS)
- The process of dividing a web page into distinct visual or structural blocks based on layout cues such as whitespace, borders, colors, and font properties. Page segmentation algorithms like Vision Bas…
- Renarration (Content Renarration, Web Renarration)
- The process of re-telling, re-presenting, or re-styling existing web content to make it accessible to new audiences who face barriers the original content was not designed to address. Renarration goes…
- Responsive Design (Responsive Web Design, RWD, Mobile First Design)
- A web design approach in which layouts, images, and other content elements adapt fluidly to the size and capabilities of the user's device, providing an optimal viewing experience across desktops, tab…
- Text Simplification (Automatic Text Simplification, Content Simplification)
- The process of transforming complex written text into simpler, more understandable versions while preserving the essential meaning. Text simplification can be performed manually by content authors fol…
- Web Localization (L10n, Website Localization)
- The process of adapting a website for a specific locale or target audience, going beyond translation to include cultural, visual, and technical elements such as date formats, colors, images, menu size…
- Web Proxy (HTTP Proxy, Intermediary, Edge Service, Proxy Server)
- A web proxy (or intermediary) is a server that sits between a user's browser and the origin web server, intercepting and potentially modifying HTTP requests and responses as they pass through. In the …
- 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…
- XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, XSL Transformations)
- A W3C standard language for transforming XML documents into other formats such as HTML, plain text, or different XML structures. XSLT uses template rules that match patterns in the source XML and prod…