Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
29 results found in web standards.
- VoiceXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language, VXML)
- VoiceXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C standard markup language for creating voice-based user interfaces, particularly interactive voice response (IVR) systems and voice browsers. VoiceX…
- WAI-ARIA (ARIA, Accessible Rich Internet Applications, WAI-ARIA Specification)
- A W3C technical specification that defines a set of HTML attributes (roles, states, and properties) to make dynamic web content and custom user interface widgets accessible to people using assistive t…
- WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
- A suite of protocols and specifications designed to enable mobile devices to access internet content and services. WAP defined standards for how mobile devices communicate with web servers, including …
- Web of Things (WoT)
- An application layer built on top of the Internet of Things (IoT) that uses open web standards — including HTTP, WebSockets, JSON-LD, and semantic web technologies — as a universal platform for intero…
- X3D (Extensible 3D, Extensible 3D Graphics)
- An ISO-standard XML-based file format and runtime architecture for representing and communicating 3D scenes and objects on the web. X3D is the successor to VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and…
- XForms (W3C XForms)
- XForms is a W3C specification for web forms that separates the purpose of a form (its data model) from its visual presentation, providing richer semantics than traditional HTML forms. Unlike HTML form…
- XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 2.0)
- XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) is a family of W3C specifications that reformulated HTML as an XML application, requiring stricter syntax rules such as properly nested elements, lowercase…
- XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, XSL Transformations)
- A W3C standard language for transforming XML documents into other formats such as HTML, plain text, or different XML structures. XSLT uses template rules that match patterns in the source XML and prod…
- mobileOK (mobileOK Basic Tests, W3C mobileOK)
- A set of machine-automatable tests published by the W3C to verify conformance with Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The mobileOK Basic Tests define a subset of best practices that can be unambiguously e…