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UAAG(also: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines)

A set of guidelines from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative that explains how to make user agents — browsers, media players, and other applications that render web content — accessible to people with disabilities. UAAG addresses how user agents should support assistive…

UWEM(also: Unified Web Evaluation Methodology)

The Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) is a standardized European methodology for evaluating web accessibility conformance with WCAG. Developed through EU-funded projects including the European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO) and Support-EAM, UWEM provides…

Unified English Braille(also: UEB)

The standard braille code used for English-language literary materials in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and other English-speaking countries. UEB was adopted to replace multiple competing braille codes with a single unified system, providing consistent…

Unified Web Evaluation Methodology(also: UWEM)

A standardized methodology developed by the European Web Accessibility Benchmarking Cluster (WAB Cluster) for evaluating the accessibility of websites in a consistent, comparable way. UWEM provides formulas for calculating quantitative accessibility scores from WCAG checkpoint…

User Agent(also: Browser, Web Browser)

In web accessibility, a user agent is any software that retrieves, renders, and facilitates user interaction with web content. This includes mainstream web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, as well as assistive technologies such as screen readers that work alongside…

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines(also: UAAG)

W3C guidelines that explain how to make user agents—web browsers, media players, and other applications that render web content—accessible to people with disabilities. UAAG covers how user agents should support accessibility features built into web content, provide their own…

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