Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Personal Needs and Preferences(also: PNP, Learner Preferences Profile, Access Needs Profile)
- Personal Needs and Preferences (PNP) is a component of the AccessForAll framework (standardized in ISO 24751 and IMS AccessForAll) that provides a structured way to describe an individual learner's accessibility requirements and interaction preferences. A PNP profile specifies…
- Personalization Semantics(also: WAI-Adapt)
- A W3C specification that defines standardized semantics enabling content to be adapted to individual user needs and preferences. Personalization Semantics allows web authors to add metadata attributes to HTML elements that describe their purpose, importance, or function in a way…
- Personalized Accessibility(also: Personalized Web Accessibility, User-Tailored Accessibility)
- An approach to accessibility evaluation and design that considers the specific disability profile, capabilities, and needs of individual users rather than treating accessibility as a single universal property. Personalized accessibility evaluation tools filter WCAG success…
- Personalized Dynamic Accessibility(also: Dynamic Accessibility, Adaptive Accessibility)
- An approach to accessibility where systems automatically detect user abilities and adapt interface settings in real-time to match current needs. Unlike static accessibility settings that remain constant, personalized dynamic accessibility recognizes that an individual's…
- Pointing Device Gain(also: Control-Display Gain, Mouse Sensitivity, Pointer Speed)
- The ratio between the movement of a physical input device (such as a mouse or trackball) and the resulting movement of the cursor on screen, typically measured in pixels per inch of device movement. Higher gain means the cursor moves further for a given physical movement. In…
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