Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in internationalization.
- Bidirectional Interface (BiDi Interface, RTL Interface)
- A user interface designed to support both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) text directions, essential for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu. Bidirectional interfaces must ha…
- Internationalization (i18n)
- The process of designing and developing software, websites, or applications so that they can be adapted to different languages, regions, and cultural conventions without requiring engineering changes.…
- Kanji (Han Characters (in Japanese))
- Logographic characters of Chinese origin used in the Japanese writing system alongside the two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana. Modern Japanese uses about 2,000-3,000 commonly-occurring kanji,…
- Multilingual Accessibility (Multilingual Web Accessibility)
- The practice of ensuring that web content and digital services are accessible to people with disabilities across multiple languages and cultural contexts. Multilingual accessibility sits at the inters…
- Multilingualism (Multilingual Accessibility, Language Diversity)
- The use of or support for multiple languages within a system, platform, community, or society. In the context of digital accessibility, multilingualism refers to the design and development of websites…
- Ruby Annotation (Ruby Text, Furigana, Ruby Markup)
- Small glossing text placed above, beside, or below a base character to indicate pronunciation or meaning — most commonly used for Japanese furigana (kana reading hints above kanji), but also applied i…
- Web Localization (Website Localization, L10n)
- The process of adapting a website for a specific locale or market, going beyond text translation to include technical and visual modifications such as adjusting layouts for different text directions, …
- 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…