Acronyms and Abbreviations

ATAG:
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
CAPTCHA:
Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart
CSS:
Cascading Style Sheet
DOM:
Document Object Model
DTD:
Document Type Definition. Also called Doctype
HTML:
HyperText Markup Language
HID:
Handicap, Incapacity and Dependency. Survey on disabilities carried through the whole French population
IE:
Internet Explorer
INSEE:
Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Etude Economique (National Institute of Statistics and Economical Studies)
Kbps:
Kilo bits per second
Mbps:
Mega bits per second
Mencap:
Mental Handicap
MMN:
Mystery Meat Navigation
NICHCY:
National Dissemination Centre for Children with Disabilities
PDA:
Personal Digital Assistant
RNID:
Royal National Institute for the Deaf (and hard of hearing people)
SEO:
Search Engine Optimization
TTY:
Tele TYpe writer
W3C:
World Wide Web Consortium
WAI:
Web Accessibility Initiative
WCAG:
Web Content Accessibility Guideline
WebAIM:
Web Accessibility In Mind
Widget:
Windows Gadget
WYSIWYG:
What You See Is What You Get. It is the name given to graphical user interface allowing the user to build the layout he or she wants
XML:
eXtensible Markup Language
XHTML:
eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

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