Glossary
- Applet
- An application generally embedded within a web page and usually written in Java or Javascript.
- Checkpoint
- WCAG 1.0 Guidelines are identified as Checkpoints.
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS is the standard way of applying display markup (i.e., visual formatting) to web content.
- Deprecated
- Marked for obsolescence in future versions (of a programming language).
- DOCTYPE
- The standard way of identifying the language (e.g., XHTML 1.0 Strict) that has been used to mark up a web document.
- DOM
- Document Object Model. This is used to describe the content, structure, and style of HTML/XHTML documents.
- Double A
- Double A conformance indicates that all Priority 1 and Priority 2 WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints have been met.
- Element
- A tag. The terms "HTML tag" and "HTML element" are interchangeable.
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language. Used to define the structure of a web document.
- IOUCA
- Information Organization, Usability, Currency, and Accessibility Working Group.
- Level A
- Level A conformance indicates that all WCAG 1.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints have been satisfied.
- Priority 1
- The first, least stringent, level of WCAG 1.0 conformance.
- Priority 2
- The second, more stringent, level of WCAG 1.0 conformance.
- Priority 3
- The most stringent level of WCAG 1.0 conformance.
- Strict
- A form of XHTML syntax that adheres strictly to the pure syntax of XHTML 1.0.
- Transitional
- A form of XHTML syntax that adheres more loosely to pure XHTML 1.0. This form allows the use of deprecated elements and attributes while XHTML Strict does not.
- Triple A
- Triple A conformance indicates that all Priority 1, 2, and 3 WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints have been met.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium.
- WAI
- Web Accessibility Initiative.
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- XHTML
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language.
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language.