Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
91 results found in design.
- Typographic Encoding (Visual Typography Mapping)
- The practice of using typographic properties—such as font size, weight, color, spacing, opacity, and baseline shift—to encode non-textual information within written content. In accessibility contexts,…
- Universal Design (UD)
- A design philosophy and practice that aims to create products, environments, and systems usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. O…
- Universal design (UD, Design for all, Inclusive design)
- A design philosophy that aims to create products, environments, and systems that are usable by the widest possible range of people without the need for adaptation or specialised design. Coined by arch…
- Universal design for learning (UDL)
- An educational framework based on research in the learning sciences that guides the development of flexible learning experiences to accommodate individual learning differences. UDL provides multiple m…
- User profile (User model, Personal needs and preferences profile, PNP)
- A structured collection of data describing a user's characteristics, capabilities, preferences, and requirements for interacting with a computing system. In accessibility, user profiles inform how int…
- User-Sensitive Inclusive Design (USID)
- A design methodology that adapts user-centered design principles for contexts where the target user population is highly diverse and where individual differences — including those related to disabilit…
- Version segregation (Parallel versions, Separate accessible version)
- A design practice in which a separate, simplified, or modified version of a product, game, or platform is created specifically for disabled users rather than making the main version accessible. While …
- Virtual environment (Virtual world, VR environment, 3D virtual space)
- A computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional space that users can navigate and interact with, typically rendered visually through screens or head-mounted displays. Virtual environments range…
- Visual Aesthetics (Aesthetic Quality, Visual Appeal)
- The subjective qualities of visual content that contribute to its perceived beauty, mood, style, and emotional impact, including elements like color harmony, composition, lighting, contrast, and overa…
- Visual design space
- The physical medium related to human sight through which a user and device may interact. The visual design space is the dominant channel in most user interfaces, encompassing text, images, video, colo…
- Wayfinding (Navigation, Orientation and mobility)
- The process by which people orient themselves in physical or digital spaces, determine their destination, and navigate a route to reach it. Wayfinding encompasses the cognitive, sensory, and physical …