Acronyms and Abbreviations
Have you come across some abbreviation that you didn't understand? So have I! Here are some of the most common ones.
This is a living document and I'm trying to add more acronyms as I come across them.
- A11Y
- Accessibility
- ACR
- Accessibility Conformance Report
- AD
- Audio description
- ADA
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- ADD
- Accessible Digital Documents
- AG
- Accessibility Guidelines
- ALT
- Alternative text (often referred to as "alt-text")
- API
- Application Programming Interface
- ARIA
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications
- ASD
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- ASL
- American Sign Language
- AT
- Assistive Technology
- ATAG
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
- CC
- Closed Captioning
- CRPD
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- DOM
- Document Object Model
- GAAD
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- GPAT
- Government Product/Service Accessibility Template
- HOH
- Hard of Hearing
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language
- IAAP
- International Association of Accessibility Professionals
- ICT
- Information and Communication Technologies
- iOS
- Internetwork Operating System (the Apple mobile operating system)
- IoT
- Internet of Things
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardization
- IT
- Information Technology
- JAWS
- Job Access with Speech
- NVDA
- Non Visual Desktop Access
- OS
- Operating System
- PAC
- PDF Accessibility Checker
- PC
- Personal Computer
- Portable Document Format
- POUR
- Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust
- SDLC
- Software Development Life Cycle
- SME
- Subject Matter Expert
- STT
- Speech-to-text
- TTS
- Text-to-speech
- UA
- User Agent
- UD
- Universal Design
- UDL
- Universal Design for Learning
- UI
- User interface
- UX
- User experience
- VO
- Voice Over
- VPAT
- Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- WAI
- Web Accessibility Initiative
- WAVE
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- WHO
- World Health Organization
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