Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- CEA-708(also: CTA-708, EIA-708, Digital Closed Captioning)
- A US standard for digital closed captioning on digital television broadcasts and streaming, superseding the analog-era CEA-608 standard. CEA-708 supports richer presentation than its predecessor, including multiple fonts, colours, opacity, text positioning, and up to 63 caption…
- Chartability(also: Chartability Heuristics)
- A set of heuristics for assessing the accessibility of data visualizations, developed by Frank Elavsky and the Dataviz Accessibility group. Chartability provides a systematic framework for evaluating whether charts, graphs, maps, and other data visualizations are accessible to…
- Checklist Accessibility(also: Checklist Conformism, Checklist Compliance)
- A critique of accessibility practice in which organisations treat accessibility as a set of discrete technical checks to be ticked off (alt text present, ARIA labels declared, contrast ratios met) rather than as ongoing engagement with disabled users. Checklist accessibility can…
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