Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
125 results found in deaf and hard of hearing.
- Visual Layout Customization (Layout Customization, Video Layout Arrangement)
- The ability for users to rearrange, resize, reposition, lock, or remove visual elements in a digital interface to suit their individual needs. In videoconferencing, visual layout customization is crit…
- Visual dispersion (Visual splitting, Divided visual attention)
- The cognitive challenge faced by deaf and hard of hearing people when they must simultaneously monitor multiple visual information sources, such as an instructor, presentation slides, a sign language …
- Wearable Technology (Wearables, Wearable Devices)
- Electronic devices designed to be worn on the body, such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, smart glasses, and haptic wristbands. In accessibility contexts, wearable technology offers unique advantage…
- Wide-Range Achievement Test (WRAT, WRAT-5, WRAT sentence comprehension)
- A standardised achievement test used to measure basic academic skills, including word reading, sentence comprehension, spelling, and math computation. In accessibility research, the WRAT sentence-comp…
- d/Deaf (Deaf, deaf, Big D Deaf, Little d deaf)
- A convention used to distinguish between two meanings of the word deaf. Uppercase "Deaf" refers to people who identify as culturally Deaf and are part of the Deaf community, sharing a common language …