Web & Design Glossary

Designing websites so people with disabilities can use them effectively.

Descriptive text for images which aids screen readers and SEO.

Application Programming Interface - allows different software to talk to each other.

CSS concept involving margins, borders, padding, and content.

The master version of a page you want search engines to index.

Document Object Model - the structured representation of HTML on a page.

CSS layout module for distributing space among items in a container.

Architectural pattern based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.

Automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.

Snippets of text that describe a page's content to search engines.

Progressive Web App - web apps that feel like native mobile apps.

Web design that adapts to different screen sizes and devices.

HTML markup that conveys the meaning of the content, not just its look.

The user's visible area of a web page.