- access control information
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From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
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Any information used for access
control purposes, including contextual
information. [X.812]
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Contextual information might
include source IP address, encryption strength, the
type of
operation being requested, time of day, etc. Portions
of
access control information
may be specific to the request
itself, some may be associated with the connection via which
the request is transmitted, and others (for example,
time of
day) may be "environmental". [RFC 2829]
- accessibility information
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From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source
"Accessibility information" is content, including information and markup, that is used to improve the accessibility of a document. Accessibility information includes, but is not limited to, equivalent alternative information.
- alternative information
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From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source
Content is "equivalent" to other content when both fulfill essentially the same function or purpose upon presentation to the user. Equivalent alternatives play an important role in accessible authoring practices since certain types of content may not be accessible to all users (e.g., video, images, audio, etc.). Authors are encouraged to provide text equivalents for non-text content since text may be rendered as synthesized speech for individuals who have visual or learning disabilities, as braille for individuals who are blind, or as graphical text for individuals who are deaf or do not have a disability. For more information about equivalent alternatives, please refer to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 1.0 [WCAG10].
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.