Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
12 results found in Arts and Culture.
- Aesthetic Experience (Aesthetic Need, Aesthetic Accessibility)
- The emotional, sensory, and imaginative enjoyment people derive from environments, art, media, and everyday scenes - distinct from functional or task-oriented information. Aesthetic accessibility argu…
- Art Accessibility (Artwork Accessibility, Cultural Accessibility)
- The practice of making visual art, museums, galleries, and cultural experiences accessible to people with disabilities. Art accessibility encompasses a range of approaches including tactile reproducti…
- Contemporary Dance Accessibility (Inclusive Dance, Accessible Dance)
- The practice of making contemporary dance learning, teaching, and performance accessible to people with disabilities, particularly those who are blind or have low vision. Unlike structured dance forms…
- Cultural Heritage (Heritage, Digital Heritage)
- Cultural heritage is the inherited tangible and intangible expressions of a community’s history, including buildings, monuments, artefacts, landscapes, oral traditions, performance, ritual, and langua…
- Curator (Museum Curator, Exhibition Curator, Art Curator)
- A professional responsible for the selection, arrangement, interpretation, and presentation of works in museums, galleries, and exhibitions. The curatorial role has expanded from its original function…
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Software used for recording, editing, mixing, and producing audio content, such as Reaper, Logic Pro, Cubase, or Pro Tools. DAWs present significant accessibility challenges for blind and visually imp…
- Equaliser (EQ, Equalizer)
- An audio processing tool used in music production and sound engineering that adjusts the frequency content of an audio signal by boosting or cutting specific frequency ranges. Equalisers are controlle…
- Formal Analysis (Formal Analysis (Art))
- An art-historical method that examines an artwork's observable formal attributes — composition, color, line, light, texture, scale, space, and style — and how they are organized, independent of biogra…
- Interactive Dance (Interactive Dance Performance, Digital Dance)
- A performance genre in which dancers' movements, physiology, or prop interactions are captured in real time (via motion capture, biosensors, or sensor-equipped objects) and used to drive digital visua…
- Song Signing (Signed Song, Sign-Singing, Song Sign)
- A performative art form in which song lyrics are interpreted in a sign language (most commonly ASL) alongside body movement, facial expression, rhythm, and spatial use, so that the performer simultane…
- Tatreez (Palestinian Cross-Stitch, Palestinian Embroidery)
- A traditional Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery practice, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2021, in which motifs encode regional identity, family histor…
- Visual Vernacular (VV)
- A deeply visual sign language performance art form rooted in visual storytelling, developed in the 1970s by deaf American actor Bernard Bragg and widely practiced internationally. Visual Vernacular co…