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A
abbrElement- Accessibility (Web)
- Accessibility Supported
accesskeyAttribute- Adaptive Technology
- Affinity Diagram
- AJAX
altAttributealtTagaltText- Alternate Stylesheet
- Alternative Interface Access Protocol (AIAP)
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anti-alias
- API
- Applet
- A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt)
- ARIA
- Array
- Assignment Operator
- Assistive Technology
- Attribute
- Audio Description
- Authoring Tool
B
- Backward Compatible
- BANA (Braille Authority of North America)
- Baseline
- Blindness
- Block Level Element
- Bobby
- Box Model
- Braille
- Breadcrumbs
- Browser
- Browser Style Sheet
C
- "Click Here"
- Captions
- Card Sorting
- Cascade
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
- ChromeVox
- Child
- Chunking
- Cognitive Disability
- Cognitive Walkthrough
- Color Contrast
- Color Deficiency
- Color Saturation
- Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP)
- Consistency
- Content Management System
- Contextual Inquiry
- Contextual Selector
- Control Structures
- Controlled Vocabulary
D
- D Link
- Data Table
- Deafness
- Declaration
- Deep Linking
- Degrade Gracefully
- Deliverable
- Deprecated
- Descendant Selectors
- Device Independence
- Digital Divide
- Disability
- Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
- Dithering
- Doctype
- Doctype Switching
- Dots Per Inch (DPI)
- Dyslexia
E
- Electronic and Information Technology (EIT)
- Element
- Em Box
- Em Unit
- Embedded Style Sheet
- Equivalent
- Ethnographic Study - Consult Field Observation
- Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) - Consult XHML
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) - Consult XML
- Extensible Style Language (XSL) - Consult XSL
- External Style Sheet
- Eyetracking
F
- Favelet
- Feature Inspection
- Field Observation (Ethnographic Study)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Flash
- Float
- Fluid Grids
- Focus Groups
- Following Element
fontElement- Font-Size
- Formal Usability Inspection
- Frames
- Front Door
- Function
G
- Gantt Chart
- GIF
- Global Navigation - Consult Primary Navigation
- Glyph
- Graceful Degradation
- Granularity
- Greek Text
- GUI
- Guidelines and Checklists
H
- Half-Leading
- Haptic
- HCI
- Head Pointer
- Headings
- Hearing Disability
- Hexadecimal
- Heuristic (Expert) Evaluation
- Hierarchy
- Horizontal Scrolling
- Hue
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
I
- @import rule
- ID Attributes and Selectors
- If Structure
- If...Else Structure
- Image Map
- Inclusive Design
- Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
- Information Architect
- Information Architecture
- Informative
- Inheritance
- Inline Box
- Inline Element
- Inline Style Sheet
- Inquiry
- Inspection
- Internal Style Sheet- Consult Embedded Style Sheet
- Internet
- Inverted Pyramid
- Iterative Design
J
K
L
labelElement- Labels
- Landmark Roles
langAttribute- Layout Table
- Leading
- Legibility
- Likert Scale
- Linearized Table
- Line-Box
- Line-Height
- Lines Per Inch (LPI)
linkElement- Link Rot
- Liquid Design
- Local Navigation
- Logical Operator
longdescattribute- Look and Feel
- Lorem Ipsum
- Low Vision
- Lynx
M
- Margin
- Markup
- MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
- Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
- Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA)
- Multimedia
- MySQL
N
- Navigation
- Negative Space - Consult White Space
- News Aggregator
- Non-replaced Element
- Non-Normative
- Normative
- NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access)
O
P
- Padding
- Paper Prototype
- Persistent Style Sheet
- PHP
- Pixel
- Pixels Per Inch (PPI)
- Plugin
- Pluralistic Walkthrough
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Portable Network Graphics format (PNG)
- Preferred Style Sheet
- Presentational Markup
- Primary Navigation
- Print Disabled
- Programmatic Determinable
- Progressive Enhancement
- Property
- Prototype
- Pseudo-Class
- Pseudo-Element
Q
R
- Rapid Prototyping
- Readability
- Relative Sizing
- Replaced Element
- Responsive Web Design
- RSS
- Rule - Consult Statement
S
- Samples Per Inch (SPI)
- Sans Serif
- Saturation
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Scanning
- Scope
- Scope Creep
- Screen Magnifier
- Screen Reader
- Screen Snapshots
- Section 508
- Selector
- Self-Reporting Logs
- Semantics
- Serif
- Skip Navigation
- Specificity
- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
- Standards - Consult Web Standards
- Standards Inspection
- Standards Mode
- Statement (Rule)
- Storyboard
- String Text
- Structure
styleAttributestyleElement- Style Sheets - Consult Cascading Style Sheets and Extensible Stylesheet Language.
- Survey
- Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
T
- Tabular Information
- Table
summaryAttribute - Tag
- Tag Line
- Tag Soup
- TalkBack
- Task Scenario
- Taxonomy
- Template
- Testing - Consult Usability Testing
- Text Equivalent
- Text-Only Browser
- Text-to-Speech
- Thinking Aloud Protocol
- Transcript
- Typography
U
- Universal Access
- Universal Design
- Universal Selector
- Universality
- Usability
- Usability Lab
- Usability Testing
- User Agent
- User Centered Design (UCD)
- User Interface Markup Language (UIML)
- User Style Sheet
V
- Valid HTML
- Validation
- Value
- Variable
- Veranda
vertical-align- Visual Disability
- Voice Input
- Voice Output
- VoiceOver
- Voice Recognition Software
- Voice XML
- Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
W
- WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications)
- WAVE
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Web Standards
- Website
- Well-Formed
- While Structure
- White Space
- Window-Eyes
- Wireframe
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)