Glossary

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• web-safe color palette

  a set of 216 colors which display correctly on 8-bit monitors for both…

• favorites list

  any shortcut designed to help users mark their favorite items and the…

• universal access

  the ability of everyone, regardless of age, nationality, disabilit…

• halo effect

  (graphics) the glow that appears around an antialiased image when it…

• scrolling listbox

  a list of text items that can be scrolled, usually allowing one or more…

• relevance

  in search, relevance is a measure of the quality of a search result, in…

• hierarchical task analysis

  HTA or hierarchical task decomposition, HTD; breaking down the step…

• GUI

  graphical user interface, pronounced “GOOEY”. A user…