- Accessibility Problem
- Instance of Web content that is not accessible
Web content.
- Accessible
Application:
- Application that has an increased likelihood of being easier to use by people
with disabilities or people who are using the application under circumstances
that impair their sensory or motor performance. For more information, see
checkpoints 1.1 to 1.6.
- Accessible Authoring Practice
- An authoring practice (e.g. creating a stylesheet, creating a document structure,
writing clearly, etc.) that contributes to the production accessible
Web content.
- Accessible
Web Content:
- Web content that conforms with *WCAG*. This Web content has an increased
likelihood of being easier to use by people with disabilities or people who
are using the application under circumstances that impair their sensory or
motor performance. For more information, see WCAG@@link to bridging document@@.
- Attribute
- This document uses the term "attribute" in the XML sense: an element
may have a set of attribute specifications (refer to the XML 1.0 specification
[XML] section 3).
- Auditory Description
- An auditory description is either a prerecorded human voice or a synthesized
voice (recorded or generated dynamically) describing the key visual elements
of a movie or other animation. The audio description is synchronized with
(and possibly included as part of) the audio track of the presentation, usually
during natural pauses in the audio track. Audio descriptions include information
about actions, body language, graphics, and scene changes.
- Authored "by hand"
- When the author specifies the precise text string, as by typing into a text
editor.
- Authoring Tool
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- Captions
- "Captions" are essential text equivalents for movie audio. Captions consist
of a text transcript
of the auditory track of the movie (or other video presentation) that is synchronized
with the video and auditory tracks. Captions are generally rendered graphically
and benefit people who can see but are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or cannot hear
the audio.
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- Editing View
- An "editing view" is a view provided by the authoring tool that allows
editing.
- Element
- An element is a document structuring unit declared in the DTD. The element's
content model is defined in the DTD, and additional semantics may be defined
in the prose description of the element. The proper name for XML tags and
the content they contain.
Example: <tag>content</tag>
- Equivalent
- Content is "equivalent" to other content when both fulfill essentially
the same function or purpose upon to the user. In the context of this WC document,
the equivalent must fulfill essentially the same function for the person with
a disability (at least insofar as is feasible, given the nature of the disability
and the state of technology), as the primary content does for the person without
any disability (e.g. the text "The Full Moon" might convey the same
information as an image of a full moon when presented to users.).Note:
that equivalent information focuses on fulfilling the same function. If the
image is part of a link and understanding the image is crucial to guessing
the link target, an equivalent must also give users an idea of the link target.
Providing equivalent information for inaccessible content is one of the primary
ways authors can make their documents accessible to people with disabilities.
- Inform
- To make the author aware of an event or state. The tool may inform the author
immediately or following an appropriate delay.
- Markup Language
- Authors encode information using a "markup language" such as HTML [HTML4], SVG [ SVG], or MathML [MATHML].
- Prompt
- "Prompt" should not be confused with the narrow software
sense of the term. Instead, ATAG 2.0 uses "prompt" in a
wider sense, to mean the process of eliciting author input. This process should
be:
(1) initiated by the tool rather than the user.
(2) user configurable in form and timing.
(3) implemented in a way that invites authors to develop a positive disposition
and awareness towards accessible authoring practices
- Property
- A "property" is a piece of information about an element. This might be the
the element type or the value of one of its attributes or some styling information. In a database,
properties of a particular element may include values of the entry, and acceptable
data types for that entry.
- Transcript
- A "transcript" is a text representation of sounds in an audio clip or an
auditory track of a multimedia presentation. A "collated text transcript"
for a video combines (collates) caption text with text descriptions of video
information (descriptions of the actions, body language, graphics, and scene
changes of the visual track). Collated text transcripts are essential for
individuals who are deaf-blind and rely on Braille for access to movies and
other content.
- Transformation
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- User Agent
- A user agent is software that retrieves and renders Web content.
- View
- Authoring tools may render the same content in a variety of ways; each rendering
is called a "view". Some authoring tools will have several different types
of view, and some allow views of several documents at once. For instance,
one view may show raw markup, a second may show a structured tree, a third
may show markup with rendered objects while a final view shows an example
of how the document may appear if it were to be rendered by a particular browser.
A typical way to distinguish views in a graphic environment is to place each
in a separate window.