Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- ePrivacy Directive(also: Cookie Directive, EU Cookie Law, Directive 2002/58/EC)
- A European Union directive that complements GDPR by specifically addressing privacy in electronic communications, including the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies. The directive requires websites to obtain informed consent before storing cookies on user devices.…
- ePub(also: Electronic Publication, EPUB)
- An open standard file format for digital publications and documents, maintained by the W3C. ePub is significant for accessibility because it supports reflowable content that adapts to different screen sizes and user preferences, semantic markup through XHTML and CSS, and…
- forScore
- A digital sheet music reading application for Apple devices that allows musicians to view, annotate, and organize music scores on tablets and phones. forScore includes features like pinch-to-zoom, contrast adjustment, color annotation, and a Reflow feature that reformats sheet…
- iGroup Presence Questionnaire(also: IPQ)
- A standardized questionnaire for measuring the sense of presence experienced in virtual environments, developed by the iGroup consortium. The IPQ assesses three sub-scales: spatial presence (feeling physically present in the virtual world), involvement (attention focused on the…
- iVector(also: Identity Vector, i-vector)
- A low-dimensional representation of voice characteristics widely used in speaker recognition and verification systems. iVectors capture many acoustic aspects of a speaker's voice in a compact form, making them useful for automatically estimating speech intelligibility in people…
- jsPsych
- An open-source JavaScript framework for building behavioural and HCI experiments that run in a web browser. jsPsych provides reusable plugins for common trial types (survey questions, Likert scales, multiple-choice, video playback, audio stimuli, best-worst scaling,…
- mHealth(also: Mobile Health, Mobile Healthcare)
- The practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and wearables. mHealth encompasses health apps, remote monitoring, telemedicine, health information systems, and medication reminders delivered through mobile platforms. For…
- mobileOK(also: mobileOK Basic Tests, W3C mobileOK)
- A set of machine-automatable tests published by the W3C to verify conformance with Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The mobileOK Basic Tests define a subset of best practices that can be unambiguously evaluated by automated tools, checking for issues such as unsupported image…
- reCAPTCHA
- A CAPTCHA system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (and later acquired by Google) that repurposes human effort spent proving they are not robots into useful work such as digitising scanned books or labelling images for machine learning. reCAPTCHA is a frequently…
- tabindex
- An HTML attribute that controls whether an element can receive keyboard focus and its position in the tab order. A tabindex of 0 places an element in the natural tab order, a positive value sets a specific order position, and a negative value (typically -1) allows programmatic…