Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- W4A(also: International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Web for All)
- An annual research conference focused specifically on web accessibility, held in conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference (WWW/TheWebConf). W4A brings together researchers studying how to make the web accessible to people with disabilities, covering topics such as…
- WEIRD(also: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)
- An acronym standing for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic — used to describe the demographic and cultural profile of populations that dominate research samples in psychology, HCI, and accessibility studies. The term highlights a significant bias: most…
- Wide-Range Achievement Test(also: WRAT, WRAT-5, WRAT sentence comprehension)
- A standardised achievement test used to measure basic academic skills, including word reading, sentence comprehension, spelling, and math computation. In accessibility research, the WRAT sentence-comprehension sub-test has been validated as a measure of English literacy for Deaf…
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