Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Self-Reflection (Reflective Practice)
- The deliberate process of examining one's own thoughts, feelings, actions, and experiences to gain insight, adjust behaviour, or support personal growth. Self-reflection is central to therapeutic mode…
- Self-Regulated Learning (SRL, Self-Directed Learning)
- The process by which learners actively manage their own cognition, motivation, and behavior to achieve learning goals. Self-regulated learning involves planning approaches, monitoring comprehension, a…
- Self-Regulation (Self-Management, Behavioral Regulation)
- The ability to monitor and manage one's own emotions, behavior, and cognitive processes to achieve goals. Self-regulation encompasses emotional regulation, attentional control, and behavioral inhibiti…
- Self-Report Measure (Self-Report Assessment, Self-Report Questionnaire)
- A standardized assessment tool in which individuals rate their own experiences, behaviors, or symptoms, typically using Likert scales or frequency ratings. Self-report measures are widely used in clin…
- Self-Representation (Digital Self-Representation, Avatar Self-Representation)
- The way individuals choose to present themselves in digital or virtual environments, particularly through customizable avatars. For people with disabilities, self-representation involves decisions abo…
- Self-Scaffolding
- Self-scaffolding is a process in which learners independently create their own support structures to achieve objectives they would not have reached without that support. Unlike traditional scaffolding…
- Self-Voicing Browser (Self-Voicing Web Browser, Talking Browser, Self-Talking Browser)
- A self-voicing browser is a web browser that includes built-in text-to-speech capabilities, allowing it to read web content aloud without requiring a separate screen reader application. Unlike traditi…
- Self-Voicing Interface (Self-Voicing, Self-Voicing Application)
- A software application or interface that includes its own built-in speech output capability, rather than relying on a separate screen reader to interpret and voice its content. Self-voicing interfaces…
- Self-adapting user interface (Adaptive user interface, Adaptive UI)
- A user interface that dynamically modifies its presentation, interaction modalities, or behaviour in response to changing conditions such as user capabilities, environmental factors, device characteri…
- Self-localization (Indoor Localization, Position Estimation)
- The process by which a system or device determines its own position within an environment, typically using a combination of sensors, maps, and reference points. In assistive technology for blind and v…
- Self-presentation (Impression management, Identity management)
- The process by which individuals control how they are perceived by others, selecting which aspects of their identity to reveal, emphasise, or conceal in different social contexts. For people with invi…
- Self-tracking (Quantified Self, Self-monitoring, Personal Informatics)
- The practice of using technology — typically wearable devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers — to systematically record and monitor personal data about one's own behaviour, health, or activiti…
- Semantic Abstraction
- The practice of defining interface elements, content, or interactions by their meaning and purpose rather than their specific visual or physical presentation. In accessibility, semantic abstraction is…
- Semantic Accessibility
- An approach to web accessibility that focuses on the predictability and consistency of user interface behavior, layout, and interaction patterns rather than the underlying code. Semantic accessibility…
- Semantic Accessibility Violation (Semantic A11y Violation)
- An accessibility issue where HTML elements or attributes are technically present but fail to convey meaningful information to users with disabilities. Examples include alt text set to generic values l…
- Semantic Analysis (Semantic Content Analysis, Semantic Similarity)
- The computational process of determining meaning and relationships within text, images, or other content by analyzing their semantic properties rather than just surface-level features. In accessibilit…
- Semantic Annotation (Semantic Markup, Semantic Tagging)
- The process of adding machine-readable metadata to web content that describes the meaning of the content rather than its visual presentation. Unlike HTML markup which primarily specifies how content s…
- Semantic Bookmarking (Semantic Bookmark, Concept-Based Bookmarking)
- A web navigation technique that associates saved page locations with meaningful conceptual labels from a domain ontology rather than with specific structural positions in the HTML code. Unlike traditi…
- Semantic Compaction (Minspeak)
- A method of encoding language for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) that maps concepts onto sequences of multi-meaning icons. Each icon is deliberately ambiguous, and meaning is resolve…
- Semantic Data Extraction (Structured Data Extraction, Information Extraction)
- The process of extracting structured, meaningful data from unstructured or semi-structured sources such as images, documents, web pages, or natural language text, preserving the semantic relationships…