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access mechanism

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A combination of hardware (including one or more devices and network connections) and software (including one or more user agents ) that allows a user to perceive and interact with the Web using one or more modalities . (sight, sound, keyboard, voice etc.)
active perceivable unit

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A perceivable unit that is currently being rendered by the user agent and with which interaction may be possible.
adaptation

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

a process of selection, generation or modification that produces one or more perceivable units in response to a requested uniform resource identifier in a given delivery context.
adaptation preferences

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A set of preferences, specified by a user , that may affect the adaptation for a given delivery context, and so change the resultant user experience .
aggregated authored units

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A set of authored units that have been aggregated in some way.
aggregation

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

The act of combining materials in various ways.
Where the materials being aggregated are authored units, the result of aggregation is an aggregated authored unit.
application personalization

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A set of factors, specified by a user or other aspects of the delivery context , that may affect the functionality of an application, independently of its adaptation and delivery, and so change the resultant user experience ."
authored unit

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

Some set of material created as a single entity by an author. Examples include a collection of markup, a style sheet, and a media resource , such as an image or audio clip.
browser

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A user agent that allows a user to perceive and interact with information on the Web.
This definition was developed from that in Weaving the Web: Glossary.
client

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

The role adopted by an application when it is retrieving and/or rendering resources or resource manifestations.
This term was taken verbatim from Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet.
content negotiation

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

The mechanism for selecting the appropriate HTTP representation when servicing a request. The HTTP representation of entities in any response can be negotiated (including error responses).
This term was developed from that in Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
decomposition

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

The act of dividing up one or more authored units during creation of a set of perceivable units appropriate for a particular delivery context. This definition has been superseded. There is a new definition of decomposition .
The act of dividing up one or more authored units , or an aggregated authored unit , during creation of a set of perceivable units appropriate for a particular delivery context.
delivery context

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A set of attributes that characterizes the capabilities of the access mechanism , the preferences of the user and other aspects of the context into which a web page is to be delivered.
A set of attributes that characterizes the capabilities of the access mechanism , and the preferences of the user . This definition has been superseded. There is a new definition of Delivery Context .
delivery unit

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A set of material transferred between two cooperating web programs as the response to a single HTTP request. The transfer might, for example, be between an origin server and a user agent.
Users are not normally aware of individual delivery units.
device

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

An apparatus through which a user can perceive and interact with the Web
flexible authoring

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

An authoring style in which an appropriate set of variants of each resource is created for use in the user experience for each delivery context.
Flexible authoring lies within a spectrum of authoring styles bounded at one end by single authoring and at the other by multiple authoring.
focus of attention

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

The point in an active perceivable unit on which the user's attention is currently focused.
For example, this might be a paragraph of text or an image on which the user is concentrating.
fragmentation

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

The act of dividing up one or more authored units to create a set of perceivable units appropriate for a particular delivery context. This term has been replaced by the new term decomposition
functional adaptation

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

An adaptation that generates a functional user experience from a particular resource .
functional user experience

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18)

A set of one or more perceivable units that enables a user to complete the function intended by the author for a given resource via a given access mechanism .

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