Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
47 results found in captioning.
- Stenotype (Stenography, Shorthand Typing, Machine Shorthand, Chording)
- A specialised text-entry method that uses a keyboard with fewer keys than a standard QWERTY layout, where multiple keys are pressed simultaneously (chording) to represent phonetic sounds, syllables, o…
- Subtitles
- Text displayed on screen that represents the spoken language in audio-visual content, primarily intended for viewers who do not understand the language being spoken. While often used interchangeably w…
- Teletext (Ceefax, Oracle)
- A text-based information service broadcast within the television signal that allowed viewers to access pages of text and simple graphics using their TV remote control. Originating in the UK with the B…
- Transcription (Speech-to-Text Transcription, Real-Time Transcription)
- The process of converting spoken language into written text, either in real time or after the fact. In accessibility contexts, transcription services provide communication access for deaf and hard of …
- Typographic Modulation (Typographic Variation, Dynamic Typography)
- Systematic variation of a typeface's visual parameters — weight, width, slant, size, colour, letter spacing, baseline shift, opacity — to carry information beyond the literal words, typically driven b…
- Verbatim Captioning (Verbatim Captions)
- A captioning approach that reproduces every spoken word exactly as uttered, including filler words, false starts, and repetitions. Regulators in many countries (e.g., the Canadian CRTC, the US FCC) em…
- Visual Attention Split (Split Attention, Divided Visual Attention)
- The cognitive challenge of needing to divide visual focus between two or more sources of information simultaneously. For deaf and hard of hearing people, visual attention split is a pervasive accessib…