Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Distraction Management (Distraction Reduction, Attention Support)
- Strategies, tools, and design approaches that help users minimize unwanted interruptions and maintain focus on their intended tasks, particularly in digital environments. For people with ADHD, distrac…
- Distraction Reduction (Distraction Removal, Distraction Minimization)
- Design strategies and technologies that minimize or eliminate elements that divert attention from primary content or tasks. In video accessibility for ADHD, distraction reduction involves identifying …
- Distributed Accountability
- A collaborative support strategy where responsibility for remembering tasks, meeting deadlines, and maintaining organizational systems is shared across a network of people rather than resting solely o…
- Distributed Cognition (DCog)
- A theoretical framework developed by Edwin Hutchins that views cognitive processes as distributed across individuals, artifacts, and the environment rather than confined to a single mind. In accessibi…
- Distributed Proofreaders (DP, PGDP)
- A long-running volunteer crowdsourcing initiative, founded in 2000, that proofreads OCR output for Project Gutenberg using a side-by-side web interface showing the scanned page image and the extracted…
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI, Equity Diversity and Inclusion, EDI)
- An organizational framework and set of practices that recognizes, values, and actively supports the full participation of people from diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities. Diversity…
- Do-It-Yourself (DIY, DIY Task)
- Tasks that an end user performs without professional help - commonly the assembly, setup, learning-to-operate, and troubleshooting of consumer products such as flat-pack furniture, kitchen appliances,…
- DocBook (DocBook XML)
- An XML-based markup language designed for technical documentation and publishing, providing a semantic vocabulary for books, articles, and other prose documents. DocBook separates content from present…
- Document Accessibility (Accessible Documents, Document Remediation)
- The practice of creating or converting digital documents so they can be effectively accessed by people using assistive technologies, particularly screen readers. Accessible documents require proper se…
- Document Analysis (Document Image Analysis, DIA)
- The process of automatically extracting structure, content, and meaning from document images or files, including layout detection, text recognition, and logical structure identification. In accessibil…
- Document Engineering (Document Design, Document Processing)
- Document engineering is the discipline concerned with the principles, tools, and processes for creating, managing, transforming, and presenting documents in ways that optimise their use across differe…
- Document Expansion (Query Prediction, Document Enrichment)
- An information retrieval technique that enhances a document by augmenting it with additional terms or predicted queries that users might use to search for that content. Methods like DocTTTTTQuery use …
- Document Layout Analysis (DLA, page layout analysis)
- A computer-vision task that identifies and classifies the visual regions of a document page—headings, paragraphs, tables, figures, captions, lists, headers, and footers—typically using object-detectio…
- Document Object Model (DOM)
- A programming interface for web documents that represents the page as a tree of objects, where each HTML element is a node that can be accessed and manipulated programmatically. The DOM is fundamental…
- Document Object Model (DOM)
- A programming interface that represents the structure of an HTML or XML document as a tree of objects, where each element, attribute, and piece of text becomes a node that can be programmatically acce…
- Document Semantics (Page Semantics, Web Document Semantics)
- Document semantics refers to the layers of meaning embedded in a web page that go beyond the raw HTML markup — including layout semantics (spatial relationships between visual elements), content seman…
- Document accessibility (Accessible documents)
- The practice of creating digital documents (PDFs, Word files, presentations, spreadsheets) that can be read and navigated by people using assistive technologies. Key requirements include semantic stru…
- Document structure (Structural hierarchy, Document hierarchy)
- The logical organization of a document into meaningful components such as headings, sections, paragraphs, lists, and tables. Proper document structure enables assistive technology users to navigate ef…
- Dojo Toolkit (Dojo)
- An open-source JavaScript toolkit for building Ajax web applications, notable in accessibility history for being one of the first major frameworks to incorporate WAI-ARIA support. In 2006, IBM contrib…
- Doll Therapy
- A nonpharmacological intervention used in dementia care in which a person is given a lifelike doll to hold, dress, and care for. For some people with advanced dementia, engaging with the doll can redu…