Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- contentDescription (content description, android:contentDescription)
- An Android accessibility attribute that provides a text description for UI elements, particularly those without visible text such as ImageButtons and ImageViews. When set, TalkBack and other Android s…
- d/Deaf (Deaf, deaf, Big D Deaf, Little d deaf)
- A convention used to distinguish between two meanings of the word deaf. Uppercase "Deaf" refers to people who identify as culturally Deaf and are part of the Deaf community, sharing a common language …
- e-MAG (Modelo de Acessibilidade em Governo Eletrônico, Electronic Government Accessibility Model)
- The Brazilian government accessibility model (Modelo de Acessibilidade em Governo Eletrônico) that establishes standards and guidelines for making government websites accessible to people with disabil…
- e-NABLE (Enabling the Future)
- A global volunteer network founded in 2013 that uses 3D printing to produce free, customizable upper-limb prosthetic devices — primarily for children with limb differences who outgrow conventional pro…
- eAccessibility (Electronic Accessibility, ICT Accessibility, Digital Accessibility)
- The concept of ensuring that all people, including those with disabilities and elderly people with reduced functional capabilities, have equal access to information and services made available through…
- eBook (Electronic Book, Digital Book, E-Book)
- A book published in digital format that can be read on computers, tablets, e-readers, or smartphones. When properly formatted, eBooks offer significant accessibility advantages including adjustable te…
- eBook Accessibility (Electronic Book Accessibility, Digital Book Accessibility)
- The practice of ensuring that electronic books and digital publications are usable by people with disabilities, including those who use screen readers, refreshable braille displays, or other assistive…
- eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services, eIDAS 2.0)
- A European Union regulation governing electronic identification and trust services across the single market. The revised eIDAS 2.0 regulation, adopted in 2024, requires each member state to provide a …
- eMAG (Modelo de Acessibilidade em Governo Eletrônico, Brazilian Digital Accessibility Model)
- The Brazilian government's digital accessibility model (Modelo de Acessibilidade em Governo Eletrônico) that provides mandatory guidelines for how government websites must ensure accessibility and eli…
- eMaking (Electronic Making, e-Making)
- A form of making that focuses on electronic and digital fabrication tools and activities, including 3D printing, laser cutting, programming microcontrollers, robotics, and working with electronic comp…
- ePrivacy Directive (Cookie Directive, EU Cookie Law, Directive 2002/58/EC)
- A European Union directive that complements GDPR by specifically addressing privacy in electronic communications, including the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies. The directive requires…
- ePub (Electronic Publication, EPUB)
- An open standard file format for digital publications and documents, maintained by the W3C. ePub is significant for accessibility because it supports reflowable content that adapts to different screen…
- forScore
- A digital sheet music reading application for Apple devices that allows musicians to view, annotate, and organize music scores on tablets and phones. forScore includes features like pinch-to-zoom, con…
- iGroup Presence Questionnaire (IPQ)
- A standardized questionnaire for measuring the sense of presence experienced in virtual environments, developed by the iGroup consortium. The IPQ assesses three sub-scales: spatial presence (feeling p…
- iVector (Identity Vector, i-vector)
- A low-dimensional representation of voice characteristics widely used in speaker recognition and verification systems. iVectors capture many acoustic aspects of a speaker's voice in a compact form, ma…
- jsPsych
- An open-source JavaScript framework for building behavioural and HCI experiments that run in a web browser. jsPsych provides reusable plugins for common trial types (survey questions, Likert scales, m…
- mHealth (Mobile Health, Mobile Healthcare)
- The practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and wearables. mHealth encompasses health apps, remote monitoring, telemedicine, health information…
- mobileOK (mobileOK Basic Tests, W3C mobileOK)
- A set of machine-automatable tests published by the W3C to verify conformance with Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The mobileOK Basic Tests define a subset of best practices that can be unambiguously e…
- reCAPTCHA
- A CAPTCHA system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (and later acquired by Google) that repurposes human effort spent proving they are not robots into useful work such as digitising sc…
- tabindex
- An HTML attribute that controls whether an element can receive keyboard focus and its position in the tab order. A tabindex of 0 places an element in the natural tab order, a positive value sets a spe…