Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- WYSIWYG(also: What You See Is What You Get)
- An acronym for "What You See Is What You Get," describing a user interface paradigm where content displayed on screen during editing closely resembles the final output (such as a printed document). While WYSIWYG editors are standard in word processing, they can present…
- Web Authoring(also: Web Authoring Tool, Content Authoring, Website Authoring)
- Web authoring is the creation and editing of webpage content and structure, historically by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and increasingly through graphical WYSIWYG tools (Figma, Wix, Squarespace, WordPress block editors, Google Sites). Authoring tools are themselves…
- Web Clutter(also: Page Clutter, Visual Clutter)
- Non-essential elements on a web page that do not contribute to the primary content or user task, such as advertisements, decorative images, redundant navigation, social media widgets, and promotional banners. Web clutter disproportionately affects users of assistive…
- Web Localization(also: Website Localization, L10n)
- The process of adapting a website for a specific locale or market, going beyond text translation to include technical and visual modifications such as adjusting layouts for different text directions, adapting date and currency formats, and modifying images and multimedia for…
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