Digital Accessibility Acronyms
ADA
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (enacted in 1990)?
The principle that everyone should be able to access digital content, regardless of ability.
What is digital accessibility?
Foreground and background colors are too similar, affecting readability
What is Low Contrast Text?
Complications when having a conversation in a busy room with multiple speakers
What is a situational auditory disability?
Application is accessible for all users
When is an application considered complete?
GAAD
What is Global Accessibility Awareness Day? (A yearly event to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments)
The federal law that mandates accessible technology in the United States
What is the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Absence of descriptions for images
What is Missing Alt Text?
Challenges using a keyboard with a broken arm
What is a temporary physical disability?
This design approach involves testing products with users who have disabilities
What is user-centered design or usability testing?
WCAG
What is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines? (A single shared technical standard for web content accessibility)
This technology reads text on screen aloud for individuals with visual impairments
What is a screen reader?
Forms that lack proper labels and instructions
What are Inaccessible Forms?
Deafness
What is a permanent auditory disability?
This principle promotes designing products that can be used by people with a wide range of abilities
What is inclusive design?
a11y
What is a community driven project to make digital accessibility easier?
A set of international guidelines for making web content accessible
What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)?
Video content that lacks captions or transcripts for accessibility
What is Time-Based Media without Captions?
Difficulty recalling information due to a lack of sleep.
What is a situational disability?
A set of attributes that enhance accessibility for dynamic content
What is ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications)
NVDA
What is Non-visual Desktop Access? (A screen reader for Windows machines that was developed by blind engineers and is free to anyone)
This technology converts spoken words into text
What is a switch or adaptive mouse?
Links with vague phrases like, "click here"
What are Non-Descriptive Links?
Vertigo from a migraine
What is a temporary vestibular disability?
The approach that ensures web content adapts to different screen sizes and devices
What is Responsive Design?