Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
3 results found in historical.
- Optacon (Optical-to-Tactile Converter)
- A historical assistive device developed in the 1970s that enabled blind people to read printed text by converting visual images of letters into tactile vibration patterns felt with the fingertip. User…
- Put That There (Put-That-There)
- A pioneering multimodal interactive system built at MIT's Architecture Machine Group (1979-1980), reported by Bolt (1980) and further developed by Schmandt and Hulteen (1982). Users seated in a 'media…
- 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…