Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
206 results found in education.
- Visual guidance (Visual cueing, Visual highlighting)
- Assistive techniques that direct a user's visual attention to relevant content through highlights, outlines, magnification, or other visual cues. For people with low vision, visual guidance systems ca…
- Visualization Literacy (Data Visualization Literacy, Graphical Literacy, Graph Literacy)
- The ability to read, interpret, and extract meaningful insights from visual data representations such as charts, graphs, maps, and infographics. Visualization literacy encompasses skills like identify…
- Vocational Training (Vocational Education, Job Training, Occupational Training)
- Vocational training is education focused on developing practical skills and knowledge required for specific occupations or trades. In accessibility contexts, vocational training for people with disabi…
- Web-Based Learning (WBL, Online Learning, E-Learning)
- An educational approach that delivers instructional content and learning experiences through web browsers and internet-connected platforms, encompassing everything from static course websites to inter…
- Weed-Out Course (Gateway Course, Gatekeeper Course, Barrier Course)
- A course in higher education, typically in STEM fields, that is perceived as intentionally rigorous to filter out students who are deemed unlikely to succeed in a given discipline. Courses like organi…
- Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
- A concept from educational psychologist Lev Vygotsky describing the range of tasks that a learner can perform with the assistance of a more competent individual (scaffolding) but cannot yet perform in…