Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Bookshare
- An online library of accessible digital books for people with print disabilities, operated by the nonprofit Benetech. Bookshare hosts more than a million titles in formats suitable for screen readers, refreshable braille displays, and audio playback, and provides free access to…
- Borne-Accessible Document(also: born-accessible, natively accessible document)
- A document that is created accessibly from the outset—its semantic structure, headings, alt text, and tags are built in at authoring time rather than added later through remediation. Borne-accessible PDFs come out of authoring tools (e.g., Microsoft Word, LaTeX with…
- DTBook(also: Digital Talking Book XML, DAISY DTBook)
- The XML text format used inside DAISY 3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86) digital talking books to represent the text content of a book in a structured, accessible way. DTBook provides elements for headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, sidebars, poetry, and other document structures, enabling a…
- Project Gutenberg
- The oldest mass digital-library project, founded by Michael Hart in 1971, offering tens of thousands of public-domain ebooks in plain text, HTML, and EPUB. Project Gutenberg titles are widely used as a free accessible-text source by people with print disabilities, and its…
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