ACCESSIBILITY LIBRARY
Accessibility terms without the fog.
Concise definitions for standards, testing, procurement and remediation conversations.
- Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
- A completed conformance report, often based on a VPAT® template.
- ADA
- The Americans with Disabilities Act, a U.S. civil rights law. This glossary is technical information, not legal advice.
- ARIA
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications, a specification for adding semantics when native HTML is not enough.
- Assistive Technology
- Software or hardware people use to interact with digital products, such as screen readers or switch devices.
- Keyboard Accessibility
- The ability to operate functionality without a mouse.
- Section 508
- U.S. federal ICT accessibility requirements.
- VPAT
- A registered template from ITI used to prepare an ACR.
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, a technical standard from W3C.
- WCAG Level A
- The base conformance level in WCAG.
- WCAG Level AA
- The common target for many web accessibility programs.
- WCAG Level AAA
- The highest WCAG level, usually scoped selectively rather than used as a default target.