Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
23 results found in personalization.
- AD Personalization (Audio Description Customization, Personalized Audio Description)
- The practice of tailoring audio descriptions to individual user preferences rather than providing a one-size-fits-all narration. Personalization can include varying the level of detail (concise vs. co…
- Adaptive Hypermedia (AH, Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, AHS)
- Interactive systems that build a model of each user's goals, knowledge, preferences, and context, then use this model to automatically adapt the content, presentation, and navigation of hypermedia doc…
- Adaptive Interface (Adaptive User Interface, Self-Adapting Interface)
- A user interface that automatically modifies its presentation, behaviour, or content based on detected user characteristics, capabilities, preferences, or environmental conditions. In accessibility, a…
- Caption Customization (Caption Personalization, Adaptive Captioning)
- The ability for viewers to adjust caption properties to match their individual preferences and needs. Caption customization can encompass visual attributes like font size, color, and positioning, as w…
- Cloud-Based Assistive Technology (Assistive Technology as a Service, ATaaS, Cloud AT)
- An approach to delivering assistive technology through cloud computing, where personalised accessibility software configurations, preferences, and tools are stored remotely and delivered on demand to …
- Content Adaptation (Content Transformation, Web Adaptation)
- The process of modifying web content to make it more accessible or usable in different contexts, including for users with disabilities, users of assistive technologies, or users on constrained devices…
- Content Filtering (Content Adaptation, Adaptive Content Delivery)
- The process of selectively displaying or hiding portions of digital content based on user preferences, roles, device capabilities, or accessibility needs. In an accessibility context, content filterin…
- Content Personalization (Accessibility Personalization, Content Adaptation)
- The practice of tailoring digital content presentation and interaction to match individual users' needs, preferences, and abilities. In accessibility, personalization goes beyond one-size-fits-all app…
- Content Transcoding (Content Adaptation, Content Transformation)
- The process of automatically modifying web content to make it more accessible or usable for specific users or devices. Content transcoding can involve restructuring HTML, modifying CSS styles, replaci…
- Description Variation (AD Variation, Alternative Description)
- Multiple versions of audio descriptions for the same video content, each reflecting different stylistic choices, levels of detail, or narrative focuses. Description variations recognize that BLV users…
- Design-for-One (Design for One, Bespoke Design)
- A design philosophy where systems are tailored to individual users rather than attempting to accommodate all users through a single universal solution. In contrast to universal design which seeks one …
- End-User Customization (User Customization, Personalisation)
- The ability for users to modify the presentation or behaviour of a digital interface according to their individual preferences and needs. In accessibility, end-user customization is particularly impor…
- IMS AccessForAll (AccLIP, IMS Accessibility for LIP, AccessForAll)
- A specification from IMS Global Learning Consortium that defines how to describe learner accessibility preferences and match them with appropriate learning resources. IMS AccessForAll extends the IMS …
- Interface Personalisation (Interface Personalization, UI Personalisation, Adaptive Interface)
- The ability for users to configure and customise the user interface of a digital system to match their individual needs, preferences, and abilities. In accessibility contexts, interface personalisatio…
- Model-Based User Interface (MBUI, Model-Based UI)
- An approach to user interface design where the interface is generated or adapted automatically from abstract models that describe the tasks users need to perform, the data domain, the user's character…
- Multi-Objective Optimization (Many-Objective Optimization, Pareto Optimization)
- A computational approach to finding solutions that simultaneously satisfy multiple, potentially conflicting goals. Unlike single-objective optimization which seeks one best answer, multi-objective opt…
- Near-Miss Detection (Near-Miss Interaction)
- A strategy for identifying when a user almost but not quite succeeds at a device interaction, suggesting they might benefit from an accessibility accommodation. For example, if a user repeatedly attem…
- Personalization Semantics (WAI-Adapt)
- A W3C specification that defines standardized semantics enabling content to be adapted to individual user needs and preferences. Personalization Semantics allows web authors to add metadata attributes…
- Personalized Accessibility (Personalized Web Accessibility, User-Tailored Accessibility)
- An approach to accessibility evaluation and design that considers the specific disability profile, capabilities, and needs of individual users rather than treating accessibility as a single universal …
- Teachable AI (Teachable Machine Learning, Interactive Machine Learning)
- Teachable AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that allow end users to personalize the system by providing their own training examples, high-level constraints, or prompts — without requiring p…