Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Accessible Tourism (Inclusive Tourism, Tourism for All)
- The practice of ensuring that tourism destinations, products, and services are accessible to all people regardless of their physical, sensory, or cognitive abilities. Accessible tourism encompasses th…
- Accessible Transit (Accessible Public Transportation, Transit Accessibility)
- The design and provision of public transportation systems — including buses, trains, subways, and associated infrastructure — that are usable by people with disabilities. Accessible transit encompasse…
- Accessible Transportation (Inclusive Transportation, Transportation Accessibility)
- Transportation systems, vehicles, infrastructure, and services designed to be usable by people with disabilities, including those with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive impairments. Accessible …
- Accessible VR Gaming (Accessible Virtual Reality Games, Inclusive VR Gaming)
- The design and development of virtual reality games and experiences that can be independently played and enjoyed by people with disabilities, including those who are blind or have low vision, deaf or …
- Accessible Virtual Environments (Accessible Virtual Worlds)
- Virtual spaces and worlds designed to be navigable and usable by people with disabilities, including consideration of locomotion methods, barrier placement, spatial layout, and environmental features.…
- Accessible Voting (Inclusive Voting, Accessible Elections)
- Accessible voting refers to the design and implementation of voting systems, processes, and polling places that enable all eligible citizens — including those with disabilities — to cast their ballots…
- Accessible Web Design (Accessible Web Authoring, Nonvisual Web Design)
- Accessible web design refers both to the practice of designing webpages that meet accessibility standards (such as WCAG) and — in a second, increasingly important sense — to the practice of enabling p…
- Accessible Workplace (Inclusive Workplace, Accessible Work Environment)
- A work environment—including its physical spaces, digital tools, and organizational practices—designed to be usable by all employees regardless of ability or age. In the digital context, an accessible…
- Accessible data capture (Inclusive data collection methods)
- Research data collection methods and tools that can be independently operated by researchers with disabilities. Current standard data capture methods in HCI research — video cameras, GoPros, visual no…
- Accessible eLearning (Accessible Online Learning, Inclusive eLearning)
- Digital learning content and platforms designed to be usable by people with disabilities. For people with intellectual disabilities, accessible eLearning requires step-by-step approaches, visual demon…
- Accessible parking (Disability parking, Handicapped parking, Reserved parking)
- Designated parking spaces that meet specific design requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar regulations to ensure equitable access for people with disabilities. Access…
- Accessmonkey
- Accessmonkey was a 2007 client-side scripting framework, built on Greasemonkey for Mozilla Firefox, that let users and developers run site-specific JavaScript to repair inaccessible web pages on the f…
- Accommodation (Reasonable Accommodation, Academic Accommodation, Disability Accommodation)
- A modification, adjustment, or support provided to enable a person with a disability to participate equally in education, employment, or public services. In the United States, accommodations are manda…
- Accommodation Letter (Letter of Accommodation, LOA, Faculty Notification Letter)
- A formal document produced by a university's disability services office that notifies faculty of their obligation to provide specific approved accommodations to a student with a disability. The letter…
- Accommodation Process (Accommodation Workflow, Accommodation Request Process)
- The organizational workflow through which workplace accommodations for employees with disabilities are requested, negotiated, implemented, and monitored. The accommodation process typically involves m…
- Accommodations (Reasonable Accommodations, Workplace Accommodations)
- Modifications or adjustments to environments, processes, or practices that enable disabled people to participate equally. In employment contexts, reasonable accommodations may include flexible schedul…
- Accordion Interface (Accordion Widget, Collapsible Sections, Disclosure Widget)
- A user interface pattern that presents content in vertically stacked sections, each with a header that can be expanded or collapsed to show or hide the associated content. Accordions are particularly …
- Achromatopsia (Rod Monochromacy, Total Color Blindness, Complete Achromatopsia)
- A rare inherited vision condition in which a person has little or no ability to perceive color, seeing the world primarily in shades of grey. People with achromatopsia typically also experience light …
- Acoustic Accessibility (Sound Accessibility)
- An emerging framing of accessibility that considers a user's full acoustic environment - which sounds reach them, how loud, and in what mix - as a design surface to be adapted to individual sensory ne…
- Acoustic Activity Recognition (Sound Activity Recognition, Audio Activity Recognition, Environmental Sound Recognition)
- The use of microphones and machine learning to automatically identify and classify sounds occurring in an environment, such as doorbells, alarms, appliances, speech, and other everyday acoustic events…