Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in GUI accessibility.
- Force Field (Haptic Force Field, Virtual Force Field)
- In haptic interface design, a computational model that defines attractive or repulsive forces at each point in a two-dimensional workspace, used to represent graphical user interface elements as tacti…
- Haptic Pointing Device (Force Feedback Mouse, Haptic Mouse, Force Feedback Pointing Device)
- An input device that combines the pointing functionality of a mouse or stylus with the ability to generate physical forces that the user can feel through their hand. Unlike a standard mouse that provi…
- Icon (Icons, UI Icon)
- A small graphical symbol used in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to represent an application, file, function, or object. Icons rely on visual recognition rather than text reading, which can be both a…
- Mercator
- A research screen reader system developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology by W. Keith Edwards and Elizabeth Mynatt for the X Window System on Unix workstations. Mercator pioneered the approach …
- Virtual Wall (Haptic Wall, Haptic Boundary)
- A simulated physical boundary in a haptic interface that the user can feel through a force-feedback device, modelled as a massless plate backed by a spring with stiffness and a damper with viscosity. …