Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Workshop Accessibility (Accessible Workshop Design)
- The practice of designing workshops, training sessions, and collaborative events to be fully participable by people with disabilities. Workshop accessibility encompasses multiple dimensions: physical …
- Workspace Awareness (Collaborator Awareness, Shared Workspace Awareness)
- The up-to-the-moment understanding of another person's interactions within a shared workspace, including their location, actions, and intentions. In collaborative software development, workspace aware…
- World Design (Virtual World Design, Environment Design)
- The creation and structuring of virtual environments in VR, including architecture, terrain, objects, lighting, and interactive elements. In accessibility contexts, world design directly impacts wheth…
- World-Making (Worldmaking)
- World-making, drawing on Nelson Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking' and extended in disability scholarship by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, refers to the active construction of shared social worlds throug…
- World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (ACTFL World-Readiness Standards, WRSLL, 5 Cs of Foreign Language Education)
- A set of US national standards for language education published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The standards are organised around five goal areas — Communication…
- Wrapper (Web Wrapper, Data Wrapper)
- In web accessibility and data extraction contexts, a reusable program that maps the visual layout of a web page to its underlying structured dataset by identifying records and fields within the HTML. …
- Wrapping (Focus Wrapping, Cursor Wrapping)
- An interface navigation technique where the focus or cursor automatically returns to the beginning of a line, list, or group of elements when it reaches the end, or vice versa. In accessible interface…
- Wrist Gesture (Wrist-Based Gesture, Hand Gesture Input)
- A movement of the wrist or hand used as an input command for interacting with wearable devices, particularly smartwatches. Wrist gestures enable one-handed, eyes-free interaction by allowing users to …
- Written Choice (Written Choice Technique)
- A therapeutic communication technique used with individuals who have aphasia, in which a conversation partner asks a question and then provides anticipated written answers for the person to choose fro…
- 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…
- XML (Extensible Markup Language)
- A markup language designed by the W3C for encoding structured data in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. Unlike HTML, which has a fixed set of tags focused on presentation, XML…
- XPath (XML Path Language)
- XPath (XML Path Language) is a query language for selecting nodes and computing values from XML and HTML documents. In the context of web accessibility, XPath expressions are used by assistive technol…
- XR Accessibility (Extended Reality Accessibility, Immersive Accessibility)
- The practice of designing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) experiences that are usable by people with disabilities. XR accessibility encompasses challenges across m…
- XR Accessibility User Requirements (XAUR)
- A W3C document that provides accessibility guidelines and user requirements specifically for extended reality (XR) applications, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. XAUR i…
- 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…
- Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC)
- A Microsoft-manufactured game controller designed for players with limited mobility. It provides a large flat-surface form factor with two oversized programmable buttons and 19 external 3.5 mm jacks p…
- Xbox Controller Assist (Xbox Copilot)
- A Microsoft software feature (formerly called Xbox Copilot) available on Xbox consoles and Windows PCs that links two physical controllers so they behave as a single controller — any input from either…
- Y-BOCS (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale)
- The most widely used clinical assessment tool for measuring the severity of OCD symptoms. The Y-BOCS includes a symptom checklist that categorizes obsessions and compulsions by type, and a severity sc…