Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

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Content Focus (Content Focus Mode, Presentation Focus)
A video layout customization option that enlarges and centers the primary visual content being discussed—such as presentation slides, demonstrations, or graphical illustrations—while removing or minim…
Content Management System (CMS)
Software that enables users to create, edit, and publish digital content — typically web pages — without requiring direct coding knowledge. Popular examples include WordPress, Drupal, and SharePoint. …
Content Moderation (Content Filtering, Automated Content Moderation)
The process of monitoring and filtering user-generated content on digital platforms, increasingly performed by AI systems. Content moderation has documented negative effects on people with disabilitie…
Content Personalization (Accessibility Personalization, Content Adaptation)
The practice of tailoring digital content presentation and interaction to match individual users' needs, preferences, and abilities. In accessibility, personalization goes beyond one-size-fits-all app…
Content Prioritization (Content Ranking, Element Prioritization)
The process of ranking or scoring web page elements by their relevance or importance to a user's task, enabling the interface to highlight critical content and de-emphasize less relevant material. Con…
Content Quality (Information Quality)
The accuracy, reliability, completeness, and trustworthiness of information presented in digital content. For health-related and disability-related content on social media and video platforms, content…
Content Re-Rendering (Content Transformation, Accessible Re-Rendering)
The process of taking content from one format or presentation and transforming it into a different format that is more accessible or usable for a specific audience. In accessibility, content re-render…
Content Rearrangement (Information Rearrangement, Content Reordering, Page Restructuring)
An accessibility technique in which the content of a web page is automatically reorganised to present the most relevant information first, based on user context, intent, or navigational history. Conte…
Content Script (Content Scripts)
Code injected by a browser extension that runs in the context of a specific web page, with direct access to the page's DOM via standard JavaScript APIs. Content scripts let extensions read and modify …
Content Security Policy (CSP)
An HTTP response header that allows web developers to restrict which sources of content (scripts, styles, images, frames, etc.) a browser will load for a given page, mitigating cross-site scripting an…
Content Simplification (Content-Level Simplification)
Simplification approaches that modify the actual informational content of text, including summarization, removal of non-essential details, and restructuring of information presentation. Content simpli…
Content Summarization (Text Summarization, Automated Summarization)
The process of condensing longer text content into shorter, focused summaries that capture the essential information. In accessibility contexts, content summarization addresses the information overloa…
Content Transcoding (Content Adaptation, Content Transformation)
The process of automatically modifying web content to make it more accessible or usable for specific users or devices. Content transcoding can involve restructuring HTML, modifying CSS styles, replaci…
Content Wants (Information Wants, Content Preferences)
The specific types of information that a user desires or needs from a piece of content, as opposed to information needs imposed by an external system or standard. In image accessibility research, cont…
Content tagging (Structural tagging, Semantic tagging)
The process of adding structural markup to document content that identifies the role and meaning of each element. In PDF accessibility, content tagging involves marking regions of a document as paragr…
Context Awareness (Context-Aware Computing, Situational Awareness)
The capability of a system to sense and respond to its environment without requiring explicit input from the user. In assistive technology, context-aware systems infer what a user is doing based on se…
Context Engineering (Context management)
The practice, in LLM-based systems, of deliberately selecting, structuring, and injecting the information an AI model sees on each call — beyond just the user's latest message — so that outputs are gr…
Context Leakage (chat session context bleed)
A failure mode in conversational AI systems in which information from earlier, unrelated chat sessions or turns influences the current response, producing output that blends contexts — for example, mi…
Context Retention (Conversational Context, Context Awareness)
The ability of a voice assistant or AI system to maintain awareness of previous interactions and use that information to interpret subsequent commands correctly. In calendar accessibility, context ret…
Context of Use (Use Context, Usage Context)
The combination of users, tasks, equipment (hardware, software, and materials), and the physical and social environments in which a product or service is used. In accessibility, context of use is a cr…