Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
26 results found in Navigation and Wayfinding.
- Scanning Navigation (Non-Visual Scanning, Auditory Scanning)
- A non-visual navigation strategy in which a screen-reader or voice-browser user steps rapidly through a page one fragment at a time — line by line, item by item, or in fixed jumps (e.g. page-down keys…
- Self-localization (Indoor Localization, Position Estimation)
- The process by which a system or device determines its own position within an environment, typically using a combination of sensors, maps, and reference points. In assistive technology for blind and v…
- Social Navigation (Socially-aware navigation, Socially compliant robot navigation)
- In robotics, the problem of moving through an environment that contains people, in a way that respects social norms, comfort, and safety. Social navigation goes beyond obstacle avoidance: it requires …
- Talking Lights
- Talking Lights is a commercial location-signalling system that modulates ordinary fluorescent light fixtures to transmit an inaudible digital signal, which a hand-held receiver carried by a blind user…
- Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN)
- Vision-and-language navigation is a task setup in which an agent follows natural-language instructions to move through a visual environment, grounding words like 'turn left at the blue sofa' onto what…
- Wi-Fi Fingerprinting (WiFi Fingerprinting, Wi-Fi Positioning)
- An indoor localization technique that estimates a device's position by comparing the signal strengths of nearby Wi-Fi access points against a pre-collected database of "fingerprints" — measurements ta…