Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
2 results found in Situational Impairments.
- Situational Visual Impairment (SVI, Situational Visual Impairments)
- A temporary reduction in a person's effective vision or reading performance caused by the environment or context rather than by a medical condition. Common examples include trying to read a phone scre…
- Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities (SIIDs, Situationally Induced Impairments and Disabilities, Situation-Induced Disabilities)
- An accessibility framework, introduced by Sears et al., that describes how everyday environments and tasks can temporarily impose the same kinds of barriers on non-disabled users that permanent impair…