For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply:
- actively available
- available for the user to perceive and use
This taken is from the definition being developed in WCAG 3.
- common views
- views that are relevant to the entire digital product
This includes the home, login, and other entry points, and, where applicable, contacts, help, legal information, and similar views that are typically linked from all other views (usually from the header, footer, or navigation menu).
A definition for view is provided below.
- digital product
- coherent collection of one or more related views that together provide common use or functionality
Web sites, web apps, e-books, kiosk apps, mobile apps and documents (PDF, Word)
The focus of this methodology is on full, self-enclosed digital products. Digital products may be composed of smaller subsets of views, each of which can be considered to be an individual product. For example, a digital product may include an online shop, an area for each department within the organization, a blog area, and other areas that may each be considered to be a digital product.
- essential functionality
- functionality that, if removed, fundamentally changes the use or purpose of the product for users
This includes information that users of a product refer to and tasks that they carry out to perform this functionality.
Examples of essential functionality include “selecting and purchasing an item from an online shop”, “completing and submitting a form provided in an application”, and “registering for an account on the kiosk”.Other functionality is not excluded from the scope of evaluation. The term “essential functionality” is intended to help identify critical samples and include them among others in an evaluation.
- evaluator
- person, team of people, organization, in-house department, or other entity responsible for carrying out the evaluation
- evaluation commissioner
- person, team of people, organization, in-house department, or other entity that commissioned the evaluation
In many cases the evaluation commissioner may be the product owner or product developer, in other cases it may be another entity such as a procurer or an accessibility monitoring survey owner.
- sample
- view that is included in the sample set
- sample set
- list of samples selected for evaluations
- view
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content that is actively available in a viewport, including that which can be scrolled or panned to, and any additional content that is included by expansion, while leaving the rest of the content in the viewport actively available
Examples of “included by expansion” include, but are not limited to: expanding paragraphs, non-modal dialogs, non-modal popups, error messages that appear embedded in content (for example, an “invalid password” error message).
A modal dialog box would constitute a new view because the other content in the viewport is no longer actively available.
This definition is taken from the definition being developed in WCAG 3.