Kansas Partnership for Accessible Technology

Acronyms and Abbreviations

1210
Also Policy 1210. IT Policy 1210: State of Kansas Web Accessibility Requirements (Kansas State Government)
504
Also Section 504. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794): prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability under any program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance (United States Federal Government)
508
Also Section 508. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794d): establishes requirements for electronic and information technology (United States Federal Government)
a11y
Accessibility (General)
ACR
Accessibility Conformance Report: report based on the VPAT® (General)
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq.): prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability (United States Federal Government)
ADAAA
ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law No: 110-325): clarifies and broadens the definition of disability and expands the population eligible for protections under the ADA (United States Federal Government)
Ajax
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML: a technique used in web application development (Technology)
AMP
Accessibility Management Platform: the tool made available by OITS to assess the accessibility of Kansas web services and content using state standards (General)
ARIA
Also WAI-ARIA. Accessible Rich Internet Applications suite (World Wide Web Consortium)
AT
Assistive technology (General)
CART
Communication access real-time translation (General)
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations (United States Federal Government)
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets: mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to web documents (Technology)
DOJ
Department of Justice: produces the ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Governments, which includes a chapter entitled “Website Accessibility Under Title II of the ADA (71 KB PDF document) that details how the nondiscrimination requirements of Title II of the ADA apply to state and local government websites (United States Federal Government)
EO
Executive Order (The KPAT was established by EO 08-12.) (Kansas State Government)
GAAD
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (General)
HTML
HyperText Markup Language: the publishing language of the Web (Technology)
IAAP
International Association of Accessibility Professionals (General)
ICT
Information and Communications Technology (General)
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission (Standards Organizations)
ISO
International Organization for Standardization (Standards Organizations)
IT
Information Technology (General)
ITAB
Information Technology Advisory Board: senior IT managers (Kansas State Government)
ITEC
Information Technology Executive Council: strategic policy and planning body (Kansas State Government)
KITO
Kansas Information Technology Office (Kansas State Government)
KPAT
Kansas Partnership for Accessible Technology (Kansas State Government)
OITS
Office of Information Technology Services (Kansas State Government)
PDF
Portable Document Format (Technology)
Policy 1210
Also 1210. IT Policy 1210: State of Kansas Web Accessibility Requirements (Kansas State Government)
RIA
Rich Internet Applications (Technology)
RITC
Regents Information Technology Council (Kansas State Government)
Section 504
Also 504. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973: as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794), prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability under any program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance (United States Federal Government)
Section 508
Also 508. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794d): establishes requirements for electronic and information technology (United States Federal Government)
Title II
ADA Title II: State and Local Government Activities (United States Federal Government)
U.S.C.
United States Code (United States Federal Government)
VPAT®
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template®: reporting format for identifying the accessibility features of ICT products and services; used to produce an ACR (General)
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium: develops web standards and guidelines (Standards Organizations; World Wide Web Consortium)
WAI
Web Accessibility Initiative: develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities (World Wide Web Consortium)
WAI-ARIA
Also ARIA. Accessible Rich Internet Applications suite (World Wide Web Consortium)
WAS
Web Accessibility Subcommittee of ITAB (inactive) (Kansas State Government)
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (World Wide Web Consortium)
WG
Working group (General)
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language: reformulation of HTML in XML (World Wide Web Consortium)
XML
Extensible Markup Language: a general-purpose specification for defining markup languages for structured data (World Wide Web Consortium)