Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- AJAX(also: Ajax, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
- AJAX is a set of web development techniques that allow web pages to communicate with a server and update portions of the page content without requiring a full page reload. AJAX poses major accessibility challenges because dynamic content updates happen silently in the DOM,…
- DHTML(also: Dynamic HTML)
- Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a collective term for a combination of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the Document Object Model (DOM) used together to create interactive and animated web content, prevalent in the late 1990s and early 2000s. DHTML created substantial accessibility barriers…
- Dojo Toolkit(also: Dojo)
- An open-source JavaScript toolkit for building Ajax web applications, notable in accessibility history for being one of the first major frameworks to incorporate WAI-ARIA support. In 2006, IBM contributed accessibility technology to Dojo, led by Becky Gibson, establishing an…
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