Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
50 results found in usability.
- Think-Aloud Protocol (Think Aloud, Verbal Protocol Analysis)
- A usability research method in which participants verbalize their thoughts, reactions, and decision-making processes while interacting with a system or performing a task. Think-aloud protocols provide…
- Universal Usability
- An approach to technology design that aims to make systems usable by the widest possible range of people, including children, older adults, people with various impairments, people engaged in other tas…
- Usability (Ease of Use)
- Usability is the extent to which a product, system, or service can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use,…
- Usability Barrier
- A type of access barrier where a task can technically be completed but not with the desired qualities such as speed, ease, accuracy, or comfort. Unlike failure point barriers, the task is possible, bu…
- User Experience (UX)
- A person's perceptions and responses resulting from the use or anticipated use of a product, system, or service, encompassing emotions, beliefs, preferences, physical and psychological responses, and …
- Viewability (Video Viewability)
- A subjective measure of how watchable and consumable a video is for a particular viewer, encompassing factors like ability to focus on content, level of distraction, information comprehension, and ove…
- Visual Distraction (Visual Clutter, Visual Noise)
- Visual elements in an interface or content that draw attention away from the primary content or task, including animated advertisements, moving backgrounds, decorative overlays, notification badges, r…
- Web Clutter (Page Clutter, Visual Clutter)
- Non-essential elements on a web page that do not contribute to the primary content or user task, such as advertisements, decorative images, redundant navigation, social media widgets, and promotional …
- Web disorientation (Lost in hyperspace, Navigation disorientation)
- The feeling of being lost or confused while navigating websites, characterized by difficulty knowing one's current location within a site, how to return to previously visited pages, or how to find des…
- Workaround (Hack, Alternative Strategy)
- A method or technique used to bypass or overcome a limitation, barrier, or deficiency in a system, particularly when the intended functionality is inaccessible or broken. In accessibility, workarounds…