Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
6 results found in assistive-technology.
- Accessibility Live Region (accessibilityLiveRegion, Android Live Region)
- An Android accessibility attribute that tells TalkBack to automatically announce changes to a view's content, without requiring the user to move focus to it. Developers set it on a view to make dynami…
- Ad Blocker (Adblocker, Content Blocker)
- A browser extension or built-in feature that prevents advertisements, trackers, and other unwanted content from loading on web pages, typically by matching requests against blocklists such as EasyList…
- Cozmo (Cozmo Robot)
- A small, toy-like robot originally developed by Anki, featuring tracked wheels, a lift arm with a fork, and a screen face that displays animated eyes and emotive behaviours. Cozmo includes face recogn…
- Embodied Agent (Embodied Conversational Agent, Embodied AI)
- An interactive system that is represented in physical or graphical form with a body, face, or avatar, allowing it to communicate with users through multiple modalities such as speech, gesture, gaze, a…
- Paro (Paro Robot, Paro Seal)
- A socially assistive robot shaped like a baby harp seal, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, designed to provide companionship and therapeutic engage…
- Pepper (Pepper Robot)
- A 120 cm semi-humanoid social robot developed by SoftBank Robotics (originally with Aldebaran Robotics), featuring articulated arms with 20 degrees of freedom, LED eyes capable of gaze behaviours, an …