Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
88 results found in sign language.
- VR-ASL (Virtual Reality American Sign Language)
- A simplified adaptation of American Sign Language (ASL) designed for use in virtual reality environments where current controller tracking technology cannot capture the full range of hand and finger m…
- Verb Inflection (Sign Language Verb Inflection, Directional Verbs)
- In sign languages, verb inflection refers to the modification of a verb sign's movement path, speed, or direction to encode grammatical information such as subject, object, number, and aspect. Unlike …
- Video Remote Interpreter (VRI, Video Remote Interpreting, Video Relay Interpreting)
- A video telecommunication service that provides sign language interpretation remotely via video connection. VRI allows deaf or hard of hearing individuals to communicate with hearing people through an…
- Video-Based Sign Language Dictionary (Video Sign Dictionary, Sign Language Video Lookup)
- A digital dictionary that allows users to look up sign language signs by submitting video of themselves performing the sign, rather than searching by text or linguistic features. These systems use sig…
- Virtual Human (Embodied Agent, Animated Character)
- A computer-generated human character used in accessibility applications to convey information through human-like movements, gestures, and expressions. In sign language accessibility, virtual humans se…
- Visual Language (Visuo-Gestural Language)
- A language that uses the visual-gestural modality for communication, as opposed to the auditory-vocal modality of spoken languages. Sign languages are visual languages that encode information through …
- Visual Vernacular (VV)
- A deeply visual sign language performance art form rooted in visual storytelling, developed in the 1970s by deaf American actor Bernard Bragg and widely practiced internationally. Visual Vernacular co…
- X3D (Extensible 3D, Extensible 3D Graphics)
- An ISO-standard XML-based file format and runtime architecture for representing and communicating 3D scenes and objects on the web. X3D is the successor to VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and…