Kansas Partnership for Accessible Technology
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| Acronym or Abbreviation | Meaning | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ARIA | Also WAI-ARIA. Accessible Rich Internet Applications suite | World Wide Web Consortium |
| 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 |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language: the publishing language of the Web | Technology |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium: develops web standards and guidelines | 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 |
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