Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in auditory display.
- Auditory Map (Audio Map, Sonic Map)
- An auditory map is an audio-based representation of geographical information designed to enable blind and visually impaired users to access and understand spatial environments without relying on visio…
- Parameter Mapping Sonification (Parameter Mapping, Auditory Parameter Mapping)
- A sonification technique that represents changes in data dimensions through corresponding changes in auditory dimensions such as pitch, loudness, timbre, spatial position (panning), tempo, or reverber…
- Soundscape (Auditory Soundscape, Audio Landscape)
- An auditory environment where multiple spatialized sounds represent objects or landmarks in all directions around a listener, creating an acoustic representation of physical space. In accessibility ap…
- Timbre (Tone Colour, Tone Color)
- The perceived quality or 'colour' of a sound that distinguishes different sources playing the same pitch and loudness — for instance, the difference between a flute, a violin, and a human voice singin…