Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Facial Avatar(also: Singing head, Talking head avatar)
- A digital, animated representation of a face — typically rendered as a 3D or stylized 2D character from the neck up — driven by audio, video, or data signals to produce expressive facial behavior such as lip-sync, emotional expression, gaze, and head motion. In accessibility…
- Focus and Context(also: Focus+Context, Detail in Context)
- An information visualization and interaction design principle that simultaneously presents detailed information about a specific item of interest (focus) alongside an overview of the surrounding structure or environment (context). In accessibility, the focus+context approach is…
- Form Accessibility(also: Accessible Forms, Form A11y)
- The practice of designing and implementing digital forms so they can be effectively completed by people using assistive technologies, particularly screen readers. Key requirements include: every form field must have a programmatically associated label that clearly describes the…
- Form Labeling(also: Form Labels, Input Labels, Programmatic Labels)
- The practice of providing descriptive text labels that are programmatically associated with their corresponding form input fields, enabling screen readers to announce what information is expected in each field. Proper form labeling uses HTML label elements with a "for" attribute…
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