Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Material Experience (Material Aesthetics, Material Interaction)
- The multidimensional way people perceive, interpret, and emotionally respond to the physical materials of objects they interact with. The materials experience framework categorizes these experiences i…
- Material Perception (Material recognition)
- The perceptual processes by which people identify and characterize the materials that objects are made of — such as wood, metal, glass, leather, fabric, or stone — using visual, tactile, auditory, and…
- Math Accessibility (Mathematical Accessibility, STEM Accessibility)
- The practice of making mathematical content — including formulae, equations, graphs, and geometric representations — accessible to people with disabilities, particularly those with visual impairments.…
- Math OCR (Mathematical OCR, Scientific Document Recognition)
- Optical character recognition technology specifically designed to recognize and convert mathematical expressions, formulas, and scientific notation from printed or PDF documents into accessible digita…
- Math-to-Speech (Mathematical Speech Generation, Math Speech)
- The process of converting mathematical notation into spoken language that can be rendered by text-to-speech engines or read aloud by screen readers. Math-to-speech is significantly more complex than r…
- MathJax
- An open-source JavaScript display engine that renders mathematical notation written in LaTeX, MathML, or AsciiMath in web browsers. MathJax is significant for accessibility because it produces output …
- MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
- A W3C standard XML-based markup language for describing mathematical notation and its structure, enabling mathematical content to be rendered visually in web browsers and read aloud by screen readers.…
- MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
- An XML-based markup language standardized by the W3C for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. MathML enables screen readers and other assistive technologies t…
- MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
- A W3C standard XML-based markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. MathML comes in two forms: presentation MathML, which describes how a formul…
- MathPlayer
- A software plugin developed by Design Science that enables the rendering and text-to-speech reading of mathematical expressions encoded in MathML within web browsers and other applications. MathPlayer…
- MathSpeak (MathSpeak Rules)
- A set of rules and conventions for verbally describing mathematical notation in a standardized, unambiguous way that can be understood by people who cannot see the visual representation of formulas. M…
- Mathematical Accessibility (Math Accessibility, STEM Content Accessibility)
- The practice of making mathematical content — including equations, formulas, graphs, and notation — perceivable, operable, and understandable by people with disabilities. Mathematical content poses un…
- Mathematical Accessibility (Math Accessibility, STEM Accessibility)
- The practice of making mathematical notation, formulas, equations, and quantitative content accessible to people with disabilities, particularly blind and low-vision users. Mathematical notation poses…
- Mathematical Braille (Braille Mathematics, Math Braille)
- Specialised braille notation systems used to represent mathematical symbols, expressions, and equations. Because standard literary braille has only 64 possible characters (from 6-dot cells), mathemati…
- Mathematical Notation (Math Notation)
- The system of symbols, conventions, and spatial arrangements used to represent mathematical concepts and relationships. Standard mathematical notation is inherently two-dimensional and visual, using s…
- Mathematical Notation Accessibility (Math Accessibility, Accessible Mathematics)
- The practice of making mathematical expressions, equations, and formulae perceivable and understandable by people with disabilities, particularly those who are blind or have low vision. Mathematical n…
- Mathematics Learning Disability (Math Disability, Mathematical Disability, Mathematics Disorder)
- A specific learning disability that affects a person's ability to understand, learn, or perform mathematical operations. Mathematics learning disabilities can manifest as difficulty with number sense,…
- Matterhorn Protocol (PDF Association Matterhorn Protocol)
- A comprehensive set of test conditions published by the PDF Association for verifying PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) conformance. The Matterhorn Protocol categorizes accessibility checks into those that can be …
- Meal Assistance Technology (Dining Assistance Technology, Food Accessibility Technology)
- Assistive technologies designed to help people with disabilities identify, locate, and consume food independently during mealtimes. For people with visual impairments, these systems may use computer v…
- Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
- A measure of linguistic complexity calculated as the average number of words (or morphemes) per utterance in a language sample. Mean length of utterance is widely used in speech-language pathology to …