Accessibility Audit
An accessibility audit is a structured evaluation of a website or app against a standard like WCAG, combining automated scanning, manual testing, and real assistive technology use to find and document barriers.
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Accessibility Center of Excellence
A centralized internal team or function responsible for setting accessibility standards, providing expertise, and coordinating accessibility practice across an organization's various product and content teams.
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A structured internal or third-party program that trains staff and validates their accessibility knowledge and skills, often as part of building organization-wide accessibility capability.
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A designated individual within a design, product, or engineering team who advocates for accessibility, answers questions, and helps embed accessible practice into that team's daily work.
Read moreAccessibility Checklist
An accessibility checklist is a condensed, actionable list of common requirements, usually drawn from WCAG, used by designers and developers as a practical reference during day-to-day work.
Read moreAccessibility Conformance Testing
Accessibility conformance testing is the formal process of verifying, criterion by criterion, whether a product meets a named standard, typically to produce a VPAT or ACR for procurement purposes.
Read moreAccessibility Debt
The accumulated backlog of unresolved accessibility issues in a product, analogous to technical debt, that grows more expensive and disruptive to fix the longer it is left unaddressed.
Read moreAccessibility Gap Analysis
An accessibility gap analysis compares an organization's current state against a target standard or maturity level, identifying specifically where the gaps are, in technical conformance, process, and team skill, before a remediation or roadmap plan is built.
Read moreAccessibility Insights
A free accessibility testing tool suite from Microsoft, offering both a guided manual-testing workflow and an automated scanner for web and Windows applications.
Read moreAccessibility Linting
Running automated accessibility rules directly inside a code editor or build process, flagging likely WCAG violations, like a missing alt attribute, as code is written rather than after deployment.
Read moreAccessibility Maturity Model
An accessibility maturity model is a framework describing stages an organization moves through, from no formal accessibility practice to reactive fixing to proactive, embedded accessibility built into every stage of the product lifecycle.
Read moreAccessibility Monitoring
Accessibility monitoring is the ongoing practice of regularly checking a site for new accessibility issues after an initial audit and remediation, since new content and features can reintroduce problems over time.
Read moreAccessibility Overlay
An accessibility overlay is a third-party script added to a website that claims to automatically detect and fix accessibility issues, typically through a small on-page widget.
Read moreAccessibility Remediation
Accessibility remediation is the process of actually fixing the barriers an audit identifies, from code-level changes like adding missing labels to broader work like restructuring page semantics or rebuilding a custom component.
Read moreAccessibility Roadmap
An accessibility roadmap is a prioritized, time-bound plan for fixing an organization's accessibility issues and building lasting accessibility practices, typically built from an initial audit's findings.
Read moreAccessibility ROI (Return on Investment)
Accessibility ROI refers to the measurable business value of accessibility work, spanning avoided legal costs, expanded market reach, improved SEO, and better usability for all users, not disabled users alone.
Read moreAccessibility Scanner
An accessibility scanner is a specific automated tool, such as axe DevTools, WAVE, Lighthouse, or a full-site crawler, that checks a page's underlying code against a rule set derived from WCAG and reports what it finds.
Read moreAccessibility Statement
An accessibility statement is a public page describing an organization's accessibility commitment, the standard it targets, known limitations, and how to report a barrier or request an accommodation.
Read moreAccessibility Training
Accessibility training teaches designers, developers, content writers, and QA staff how to build and check for accessibility as part of their normal workflow, rather than leaving it to a single specialist or an outside audit alone.
Read moreAccessibility Tree
The accessibility tree is the browser's internal representation of a page built specifically for assistive technology, containing each element's role, accessible name, state, and value, derived from the DOM and any ARIA attributes present.
Read moreAccessible Authentication
A WCAG 2.2 success criterion (3.3.8, Level AA) requiring that login processes not rely solely on a cognitive function test, like remembering a password or solving a puzzle, without an accessible alternative.
Read moreAccessible Canada Act (ACA)
Canada's federal accessibility law, aiming for a barrier-free Canada by 2040, requiring federally regulated organizations to publish accessibility plans and meet digital accessibility standards.
Read moreAccessible Color Palette
A set of brand or design colors chosen so that every required text and interface color combination meets WCAG contrast requirements without relying on color alone to convey meaning.
Read moreAccessible Data Visualization
Designing charts, graphs, and dashboards so their information is available to people who cannot perceive color, fine visual detail, or the chart image itself, not just to sighted users.
Read moreAccessible Description
The additional descriptive text an assistive technology exposes for an element beyond its accessible name, typically supplying context, instructions, or error detail.
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