Assistive Technology

a.  Any item, piece of equipment, product, system or software, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.

b. Any product or system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.

Informative

a.  Information in a specification that is not required for conformance but contributes to the correct use and implementation of the specification.

b.  Describing information in a specification that is not required for conformance but contributes to the correct use and implementation of the specification.

Non-normative

a.  Descriptions or prescriptions that lie outside the normative criteria of a specification.

b.  Describing descriptions or prescriptions that lie outside the normative criteria of a specification.

Normative

a.  Criteria that must be satisfied for conformance with a given specification.

b.  Describing criteria that must be satisfied for conformance with a given specification.


Conformance

**The state of a product or service when it satisfies all the requirements of a given specification.

Graceful Transformation

**When a browser or media player changes the presentation of a document, the new presentation offers the same functionality as the original.

Linearized content

** A presentation that arranges web content in a sequential order. For example, one form of linearization changes side-by-side displayed content into a one column format. To be usable, a linearization should arrange content in a logical reading order.

Metadata

**Data that describes, highlights and/or explains other data. This includes items such as authorship, key words, character set, publication dates, title information and language. The inclusion of metadata in a web document helps indexing, searching processes and semantic analysis.

Real-time Events

**An event that is reported or recorded as it occurs— For example, in real time captioning text captions are displayed as the text is spoken.

Render

** Transformation of machine-oriented information into a form perceivable and usable to a human user. Document markup such as HTML or CSS may be incomprehensible to the human user, but a browser or media player may transform it into a meaningful form. For example the HTML element <em> indicates that emphasis is intended. The user agent may emphasize the content responding to CSS directions by changing font or tone of voice.

Web Accessibility

** Web accessibility means that the Web is designed so that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with it effectively, as well as create and contribute content to the Web.