Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in hearing accessibility.
- Assistive Listening Device (ALD, Hearing Assistive Technology)
- Any device designed to improve audibility for a person with hearing loss, beyond or in addition to a hearing aid or cochlear implant. Common examples include personal amplifiers, FM and radio-frequenc…
- Audio-Video Synchrony (AV Sync, Lip Sync, Audio-Video Synchronization)
- The temporal alignment between audio and video streams in multimedia content or real-time communication. When audio and video are not properly synchronized, the mismatch can significantly impair speec…
- Captioned Telephone (CapTel, Captioned Phone)
- A telecommunications device that displays real-time captions of what the other party is saying during a phone call, enabling people who are hard of hearing to read the conversation while also listenin…
- Remote Captioning (Remote CART, Remote Real-Time Captioning)
- A live captioning service delivered at a distance, in which a human captioner (CART provider) or automatic speech recognition system receives an audio feed from a meeting, classroom, or event over the…