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Australian Capital Territory.
A computer language.
Americans with Disabilities Act.
Keyboard keys or key combinations that can be used to quickly access functions,
such as links.
The Affero General Public License, a licence by Affero to promote the freedom of
its software.
The Australian Human Rights Commission, formerly known as the
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
More information is available at the Australian Human Rights Comission Homepage.
Accessible Rich Internet Applications.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a standard which specifies a
limited set of symbols which can be used for representing the English written
language on computers.
Use of typed symbols as vectors with which to draw complex shapes, or fake
markup. It is not, in fact, limited to use of ASCII, and can use any symbols
that can be displayed (or that can affect the display of other symbols).
Best Current Practice.
A common computer language.
A common computer language.
The Creative Commons Public License, a license by Creative Commons to promote
the freedom of works.
More information is available at the Creative Commons website.
One commonly used and widely supported way for browsers to store information,
which lasts longer than the request which created it.
Cascading Style Sheets, a technology that can be used to apply presentational
styles to documents. Because CSS is intended to be supported for both (document)
author and user styling, it has major significance for accessibility.
Delivery Center.
A French-language phrase, commonly used in English, meaning “in practice”.
Domain Name System, the main system used on the internet for translating the
domain part of a web address into an IP address which can be used to contact the
corresponding server.
A document format, the default format of Microsoft Word.
Electronic Mail, the most common form of mail used on the internet.
The name of a computer language, commonly known as JavaScript, which is widely
used on the World Wide Web.
The Latin-language phrase exempli gratia, commonly used in English, meaning
“for example”.
Nonsense.
An experimental computer language.
More information is available at The Go Programming Language website.
GNU’s Not UNIX, a playful acronym for a project which aims to produce a
freely-distributable UNIX-compatible operating system.
More information is available at the GNU website.
The GNU Affero General Public License, a licence by the Free Software Foundation
to promote the freedom of its software.
More information is available at the GNU Affero General Public License page.
The GNU General Public License, a licence by the Free Software Foundation to
promote the freedom of its software.
More information is available at the GNU General Public License page.
Hypertext Markup Language, and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, are a
format for creating structured documents. It is central to the World Wide Web as
we know it.
Hypertext Transport Protocol, a major protocol for transmitting World Wide Web
content.
Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol. Although the method used to ensure security
can vary, it historically implied SSL, and currently implies TLS.
The Latin-language phrase id est, commonly used in English, meaning “that is”.
International Electrotechnical Commission, an international body that defines
and promotes standards.
The Internet Engineering Task Force.
More information is available at the Internet Engineering Task Force website.
Internet Protocol (usually impling version 4), one of a number of major
protocols used on the internet, and used for most World Wide Web communication.
Internet Protocol, version 6; an advanced successor to IP (version 4).
The International Organization for Standardization, an international body that
defines and promotes standards.
A common computer language.
Markup is the code within a document language which gives logical structure to
the contents of that document.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a major protocol for transmitting
internet content.
In Typography, monospace fonts are, literally, fonts that show standard symbols
all with the same width.
New South Wales.
Northern Territory.
Operating System, the main software used on a computer to manage more general
software.
A common computer language.
More information is available at The Perl Programming Language website.
PHP Hypertext Processor, a common computer language, often used for processing
web pages.
More information is available at the PHP website.
Portable Network Graphics, a standard format for representing raster images.
More information is available at the Portable Network Graphics Home Site.
Post Office Box.
Portable Document Format, a technology for creating documents that can be
printed in an exact way.
The Latin-language phrase Pro Bono, or fully Pro Bono Publico, is sometimes
used in English in professional texts. It translates as
“For the Good of the Community”, and it often implies services provided gratis,
in the interest of the public.
Quality Assurance.
Queensland.
A visual line of variable appearance; several successive lines each of different
appearance can collectively display an image, such as is the case with a
computer or TV screen.
Request For Comments.
Read-Only Memory, a type of computer storage that cannot normally be changed,
once first created.
South Australia.
In Typography, sans-serif fonts are, literally, fonts without serifs. At low
resolutions, sans-serif fonts tend to be more legible than similar serif fonts.
In Typography, serif fonts are fonts which include small marks at the ends of
letter shapes, usually also implying a variable stroke width. This gives them a
classical appearance, resembling traditional high-quality chiseling or
engraving. It also helps to make individual symbols easier to distinguish in
high-resolution print, compared with sans-serif fonts.
A browser session is the time between when the browser is started and when the
browser is closed.
Secure Socket Layer, an historic, but sometimes still-used, technology for
helping to ensure secure communication on the internet (and IP networks
generally).
Structured Query Language, a common computer language used to communicate with
databases.
Transport Layer Security, an advanced replacement for the older SSL technology,
which helps ensure secure communication on the internet (and IP networks
generally).
Television.
United Kingdom.
Universal Coded Character Set, a standard which specifies a universal set of
symbols which can be used for representing human written languages on computers.
Commonly referred to as Unicode.
More information is available at the Unicode website.
UNIX is an operating system. UNIX pioneered many now-popular ideas in computer
science, and so a lot of modern software aims to be compatible with it.
Uniform Resource Identifier, a way of specifying an address on the internet.
United States of America.
Unicode Transform Format 8-bit, a standard method for encoding UCS text data.
A common computer language.
Voice Over IP, a protocol for communication voice data over IP networks, such as
the internet.
The World Wide Web Consortium, a body that defines and promotes standards
related to World Wide Web technologies.
More information is available at the World Wide Web Consortium website.
Western Australia.
Web Accessibility Initiative.
More information is available at the Web Accessibility Initiative website.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, standards which help to inform authors
and developers of what is required for people to access and use their websites,
even if they have different requirements to most users.
World Intellectual Property Organization.
Extensible Markup Language, a document language designed to provide a framework
for easily converting the documents used on the World Wide Web with other
documents.