Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
Search results
- Ability-Based Design(also: ABD)
- A design paradigm for accessible technology introduced by Jacob Wobbrock and colleagues that emphasizes adapting systems to meet users' abilities rather than requiring users to adapt to systems. Ability-based design applies "design-for-one" strategies universally, positioning…
- Accessibility Persona(also: Disability Persona, Inclusive Persona)
- A detailed, realistic description of a hypothetical user with specific disabilities, assistive technology configurations, and usage contexts, used during design and evaluation to help teams consider accessibility requirements from the perspective of real people. Accessibility…
- Accessible Content Creation(also: Accessible Authoring)
- The design of tools, workflows, and processes that enable people with disabilities to create original content — including visual illustrations, documents, presentations, and multimedia — independently and with full creative control. Traditional content creation tools often rely…
- Accessible Web Design(also: Accessible Web Authoring, Nonvisual Web Design)
- Accessible web design refers both to the practice of designing webpages that meet accessibility standards (such as WCAG) and — in a second, increasingly important sense — to the practice of enabling people with disabilities to act as web designers themselves, not just as testers…
4 results.