- inform
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From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source
To "inform" is to make the author aware of an event or situation through alert, prompt, sound, flash, or other means.
- information resource
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From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source
A resource which has the property that
all of its essential characteristics can be conveyed in a
message.
- information set
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From XML Inclusions (XInclude) (2004-12-20) | Glossary for this source
The term information set refers to the output of an or processor, expressed as a collection of information items and properties as defined by the specification.
- information space
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
The abstract concept of everything accessible using networks:
the Web.
- informative
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From QA Framework: Specification Guidelines (2005-08-17) | Glossary for this source
Text in a specification whose purpose is informational or assistive in the understanding or use of the specification, and which contains no conformance requirements or test assertions.
- namespace-well-formed
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From Namespaces in XML 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source
A document is namespace-well-formed if it conforms to this specification.
- normative, informative
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From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source
What is identified as "normative" is required for conformance (noting that one may conform in a variety of well-defined ways to this document). What is identified as "informative" (sometimes, "non-normative") is never required for conformance.
- PICS (Platform form
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
W3C's technology that allows parents to select content for
their children on the basis of an open set of criteria, as opposed
to government censorship. See filtering.
- separation of form from content
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
The principle that one should represent separately the essence
of a document and the style with which it is presented. An element
in my decision to use SGML and an important element in the drive
for accessibility on the Web.
- strict conformance
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From QA Framework: Specification Guidelines (2005-08-17) | Glossary for this source
Conformance of an implementation that employs only the requirements
and/or functionality defined in the specification and no more (i.e., no
extensions to the specification are implemented).
- support, implement, conform
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From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source
In this document, the terms "support," "implement," and "conform" all refer to what a developer has designed a user agent to do, but they represent different degrees of specificity. A user agent "supports" general classes of objects, such as "images" or "Japanese." A user agent "implements" a specification (e.g., the PNG and SVG image format specifications or a particular scripting language), or an API (e.g., the DOM API) when it has been programmed to follow all or part of a specification. A user agent "conforms to" a specification when it implements the specification and satisfies its conformance criteria.
- tabular information
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From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05) | Glossary for this source
When tables are used to represent logical relationships among data -- text, numbers, images, etc., that information is called "tabular information" and the tables are called "data tables". The relationships expressed by a table may be rendered visually (usually on a two-dimensional grid), aurally (often preceding cells with header information), or in other formats.
- transformation
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From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source
A "transformation" is a process that changes a document or object into another, equivalent, object according to a discrete set of rules. This includes conversion tools, software that allows the author to change the DTD defined for the original document to another DTD, and the ability to change the markup of lists and convert them into tables.
- uniform resource identifier
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
A short string that uniquely identifies a
resource
such as an HTML document, an image, a
down-loadable file, a service, or an electronic mailbox.
- uniform resource identifier (URI)
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From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source
A global identifier in the context of the
World Wide Web.
- URL (Uniform resource locator)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A term used sometimes for certain URIs to indicate that they
might change. See URI.
- WAIS (Wide area information servers)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle
while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines,
but without hypertext.
- well-formed
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From XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) (2000-01-26) | Glossary for this source
A document is well-formed when it is structured according to the rules defined in Section 2.1 of the XML 1.0 Recommendation [XML].
- well-formed
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From RDF Semantics (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source
(adj., of an
expression). Syntactically legal.
- well-formed
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From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source
A textual object is a well-formed XML document if: