Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
9 results found in data.
- Crowdsourcing
- The practice of gathering information, data, or contributions from a large group of distributed participants, typically via the internet. In accessibility, crowdsourcing platforms like Wheelmap and Ac…
- Daily Data Analysis (DDA, Everyday Data Analysis)
- The common, everyday tasks of analyzing and deriving insights from data that people perform in their daily lives or work, such as splitting expenses among friends, computing stock portfolio changes, c…
- Data Accessibility (Accessible Data, Data Access)
- The practice of making data and data-related tools usable by people with disabilities, ensuring that information presented in tables, charts, graphs, spreadsheets, and databases can be perceived, unde…
- Data Exploration (Exploratory Data Analysis, EDA)
- The process of investigating and examining datasets to discover patterns, spot anomalies, test hypotheses, and check assumptions, typically as a preliminary step before formal analysis. For blind and …
- Data Literacy (Data Fluency)
- The ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. Data literacy encompasses skills such as knowing how to interpret charts and graphs, identify trends and outliers, underst…
- Linked Data (Linked Open Data, LOD)
- A method of publishing structured data on the web so that it can be interlinked and queried across different sources using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, URIs, and SPARQL. Linked Data principl…
- Open Data (Open Government Data)
- Data that is freely available to anyone to use, redistribute, and republish without restrictions from copyright, patents, or other control mechanisms. In the accessibility context, open data initiativ…
- Quantified Self (Self-Tracking, Personal Informatics, Lifelogging)
- The practice of using technology to systematically track and analyse data about one's own body, health, behaviour, and daily activities. Common tools include fitness trackers, smartwatches, heart rate…
- Tabular Data (Table Data, Structured Data)
- Information organized in a grid of rows and columns, commonly found in spreadsheets, databases, and HTML tables. For accessibility, tabular data must be properly structured with row and column headers…