Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
31 results found in Non-Visual Interaction.
- Passive Exploration (System-Directed Presentation)
- An interaction paradigm in non-visual interfaces where a complete representation of information is presented to the user all at once, rather than being discovered through user-directed navigation. In …
- Radial Direction (Angular Direction, Heading, Bearing (audio display))
- In auditory-display research, a data value that represents a direction in a plane — for example a compass bearing, the tangent of a curve, or the orientation of a pointer — treated as an angle rather …
- 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…
- Sentence-Level Bookmark (In-Page Bookmark, Content Bookmark)
- A type of bookmark that marks a specific position within a web page's content, rather than simply saving the page's URL. Sentence-level bookmarks allow users — particularly those using screen readers …
- Speech-Based Navigation (Audio Navigation, Speech-Based Web Navigation)
- A method of navigating digital content, particularly web pages, using synthesised speech output rather than visual display. In speech-based navigation, users listen to content read aloud sequentially …
- Table Reading Style (Table Reading Strategy, Table Browsing Style)
- The particular way in which a reader accesses and processes the content of a data table, determined by the interaction between the table's structure, content, and the reader's intent. Common table rea…
- Texture Perception (Texture sense, Tactile texture perception)
- The perceptual capacity to detect and characterize surface properties — roughness, smoothness, bumpiness, graininess, stickiness, and directional patterns — through touch, vision, or cross-modal integ…
- Touchpad Navigation (Trackpad Navigation)
- A method of interacting with digital content by dragging fingers or pressing specific positions on a smooth-surface touchpad input device. In accessibility contexts, touchpad navigation enables direct…
- Tree Navigation (Hierarchical Navigation, Tree View Navigation)
- The process of moving through and exploring hierarchical data structures (trees) such as file systems, program structures, organizational charts, or menu systems. In accessible computing, tree navigat…
- Vibro-Audio Map (VAM, Vibro-Audio Display)
- A multimodal map representation for touchscreen devices that combines vibrotactile feedback with synchronised audio cues to convey spatial information non-visually. Users explore the map by dragging a…
- Voicemark (Voice Bookmark, Audio Bookmark)
- A navigable audio marker or bookmark that allows users to quickly locate and access specific sections of web content or documents through speech or keyboard interaction. Voicemarks are created by anal…