Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Cultural Heritage Accessibility(also: CH Accessibility, Heritage Accessibility, Museum Accessibility)
- Cultural heritage accessibility refers to the practices, standards, and technologies that enable people with disabilities — as well as non-specialist and diverse audiences — to access, discover, and engage with collections held by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (the…
- GLAM(also: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Cultural Heritage Institutions)
- An umbrella acronym for cultural-heritage institutions: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. GLAM is a common scoping term in accessibility research because these institutions hold large collections of materials that are often not born-accessible — digitised texts,…
- IIIF(also: International Image Interoperability Framework, Triple-I-F)
- The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of open, community-developed technical specifications and APIs that enable cultural heritage institutions to share, access, and reuse digital image collections in a standardised way. IIIF provides an Image API…
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