Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Red-teaming (Red team testing)
- A structured adversarial-testing practice in which a dedicated team deliberately attempts to break, manipulate, or provoke harmful outputs from a system — originally from military strategy, now widely…
- Self-Consistency (Self-Consistency Prompting, Self-Consistency Decoding)
- A prompting technique for large language models in which the model is queried multiple times with the same input (using non-deterministic sampling) and the most frequent or highest-voted answer is ret…
- Semantic Accessibility Violation (Semantic A11y Violation)
- An accessibility issue where HTML elements or attributes are technically present but fail to convey meaningful information to users with disabilities. Examples include alt text set to generic values l…
- Static Accessibility Analysis (Static A11y Analysis, Source Code Accessibility Analysis)
- An approach to detecting accessibility issues by examining an application's source code, layout files, or configuration without actually running the application. In mobile development, this typically …
- Text-Only Browser (Text Browser, Text-Based Browser)
- A web browser that renders pages as plain text without images, styling, or complex layouts, displaying only the textual content and link structure. Examples include WebbIE, Lynx, and Links. Text-only …
- Violation Score (Accessibility Score, A11y Score)
- A numerical metric used to quantify the severity and prevalence of accessibility violations on a web page or within a dataset. Violation scores typically map qualitative impact levels (cosmetic, minor…
- WAVE (WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool)
- A suite of web accessibility evaluation tools developed by WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) that identifies accessibility and WCAG errors in web pages. WAVE provides visual feedback by injecting ico…
- Web Accessibility Assessment (Accessibility Evaluation, Accessibility Audit, Web Accessibility Testing)
- The process of evaluating websites and web applications to determine how well they meet accessibility standards and guidelines, typically WCAG. Assessment methods include automated testing with evalua…
- Web Accessibility Evaluation (Accessibility Assessment, Accessibility Review)
- The process of assessing whether a website or web application meets accessibility standards and can be used by people with disabilities. Evaluation methods include automated testing using tools like a…