Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
6 results found in Media.
- Captioning (Captions, Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, SDH)
- The process of displaying synchronized text on screen that represents spoken dialogue, sound effects, and other audio information in video content. Unlike subtitles, captions are specifically designed…
- Disability Porn
- A critical term used within disability studies and disability communities to describe media content that frames disabled people as objects of pity, tragedy, or spectacle for a non-disabled audience's …
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format, Animated GIF)
- A file format originally created in 1987 for bundling multiple images that evolved into a widely used medium for short, silent, looping animations on the web and social media. GIFs are primarily used …
- Meme Accessibility (Social Media Image Accessibility)
- The practice of making internet memes — images, GIFs, and short videos that spread virally through social media — accessible to people with disabilities, particularly those with vision impairments. Me…
- Narrative Engagement (Story Engagement)
- A multidimensional construct used in media studies and HCI research to capture how deeply a viewer is drawn into a story, including narrative understanding, attentional focus, narrative presence (the …
- Podcast (Podcasting)
- An episodic, on-demand audio programme distributed over the internet, typically via RSS or proprietary platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and BBC Sounds. Podcasts are a dominant form of long-f…