Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Tab Order(also: Focus Order, Navigation Order, Tabbing Order)
- The sequence in which interactive elements receive keyboard focus when a user presses the Tab key to navigate through a web page or application. A logical tab order follows the visual layout and task workflow, allowing keyboard-only users to interact with content efficiently.…
- Table Linearization(also: Table Serialization)
- Table linearization is the process of converting a two-dimensional HTML table into a one-dimensional sequence of text for non-visual presentation. When a screen reader linearizes a table, it reads the content cell by cell, row by row, from top-left to bottom-right, stripping…
- Text-Mode Browser(also: Text Browser, Terminal Browser, Console Browser)
- A web browser that renders web pages as text only, without displaying images or graphical layout, typically running in a command-line terminal or console environment. The most well-known text-mode browser is Lynx, developed at the University of Kansas in the early 1990s.…
- Transformation Proxy(also: Transcoding Proxy, Web Accessibility Proxy)
- A transformation proxy is an intermediary server that sits between a user and the web, intercepting web pages and modifying their content before delivering them to the user's browser. In accessibility contexts, transformation proxies are used to improve the accessibility of web…
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