Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in Multilingual Accessibility.
- Bharati Braille (Indian Braille)
- A unified Braille standard for writing text in Indian languages using the six-dot Braille format. Bharati Braille assigns the same Braille cell to phonetically equivalent characters across different I…
- Glyph Substitution (GSUB)
- A typographic process in which one or more characters in a text are replaced with alternative visual forms (glyphs) based on context, language, or stylistic requirements. In OpenType fonts, the GSUB t…
- Halant (Virama, Hasanta)
- A diacritical mark used in Indian (Indic) scripts to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant, enabling the formation of consonant clusters or conjuncts. When a halant follows a consonant, it indica…
- ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange)
- A character encoding standard developed by the Government of India for representing Indian language text in digital systems. ISCII uses a single encoding scheme that can represent characters from all …
- Ideographic Characters (Ideographs, Logograms, CJK Characters, Han Characters)
- Ideographic characters are written symbols that represent a word, morpheme, or concept rather than an individual sound, as used in Chinese (Hanzi), Japanese (Kanji), and historically Korean (Hanja). B…
- Indian Language Accessibility (Indic Language Accessibility)
- The set of challenges and solutions involved in making digital technology accessible to people with disabilities who use Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and others. In…
- Input Method Editor (IME, Input Method)
- A software component that allows users to enter characters and symbols not directly available on their physical keyboard, particularly for languages with large character sets or complex scripts. IMEs …
- OpenType (OpenType Font)
- A font format developed by Microsoft and Adobe that supports advanced typographic features including glyph substitution (GSUB) and glyph positioning (GPOS). OpenType fonts are critical for correctly r…