Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

5 results found in developer tools.

AI Coding Assistant (AI Pair Programmer, Code Copilot)
An artificial intelligence tool integrated into code editors that assists developers by generating code suggestions, completing code snippets, and answering programming questions using large language …
Abstract Syntax Tree (AST, Syntax Tree)
A hierarchical tree representation of source code structure that captures the syntactic relationships between programming constructs like functions, classes, loops, and statements. In accessibility, A…
Command-Line Interface (CLI, Command-Driven Interface, Command Interface)
A user interface style in which the user types textual commands, usually following a defined syntax, to drive a system. Command-line interfaces are typically fast and powerful for expert users, script…
Pa11y
An open-source automated accessibility testing tool that runs from the command line and in continuous-integration pipelines. Pa11y can drive either axe-core or HTML CodeSniffer as its underlying rule …
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…