Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
45 results found in Deaf Accessibility.
- Text Messaging (SMS, Short Message Service, Texting, MMS, Multimedia Messaging Service)
- Text messaging is the exchange of short written messages between mobile devices over a cellular or data network, most commonly using the SMS (Short Message Service) or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Servic…
- Transcript (Text Transcript, Video Transcript, Audio Transcript)
- A written document containing the complete text of spoken content from a video or audio recording, presented separately from the media rather than synchronized with it. Unlike captions, which appear o…
- Transliteration (Sign Language Transliteration)
- The word-by-word conversion of text from one system into another — for example, rendering a name in one script using the characters of another. In sign-language accessibility the term has a specific m…
- Virtual Signing (Avatar Signing, Synthetic Signing)
- Virtual signing is the use of computer-generated animated characters (avatars) to present sign language, as an alternative to pre-recorded video of human signers. Virtual signing systems typically inv…
- Visual Orchestration (Visual Attention Management)
- A design orientation, articulated by Huffman et al. (2026), for deliberately coordinating visual cues, salience, timing, and layout so that participants in a shared environment know where to look, whe…