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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Accessibility API(also: Accessibility Application Programming Interface, Platform Accessibility API)
A software interface provided by operating systems and browsers that exposes information about user interface elements — including their roles, states, properties, and relationships — to assistive technologies such as screen readers. Accessibility APIs (e.g., Microsoft UI…
Adobe Acrobat(also: Acrobat Pro, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Acrobat DC)
Adobe's commercial software suite for creating, editing, and managing PDF documents, including accessibility remediation features. Acrobat Pro includes tools for adding tags to PDF documents, setting reading order, editing document structure through a tag tree, running…
Auto-Correction(also: Autocorrect, Automatic error correction, Spell correction)
A software feature that automatically detects and corrects typing errors, typically by comparing entered text against a dictionary and suggesting or applying the closest match based on string distance algorithms. Auto-correction is particularly important for accessible text…

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