Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
6 results found in text editing.
- Insertion Error (Missing Text Error)
- A type of text error where content that should be present is missing, requiring the user to navigate to the correct position and add the missing characters, words, or phrases. Insertion errors are cha…
- LLM-Based Auto Correction (AI-Powered Text Correction, LLM Autocorrect)
- The use of large language models to automatically detect and correct common text errors without requiring manual user intervention. In accessibility contexts, LLM-based auto correction can reduce the …
- Navigation Granularity (Text Navigation Level, Granularity Level)
- The unit of text movement when navigating through content—typically character, word, sentence, line, or paragraph level. Screen reader users must select their desired navigation granularity before mov…
- Omission Error (Extra Text Error, Deletion Needed Error)
- A type of text error where extraneous or incorrect content is present and needs to be removed. Despite the name suggesting something missing, in text editing research this term refers to errors requir…
- Substitution Error (Replacement Error, Word Substitution)
- A type of text error where an incorrect word or character appears in place of the intended one. Substitution errors commonly arise from speech recognition misrecognition, autocorrect mistakes, or typi…
- Text Correction (Text Editing, Error Correction)
- The process of identifying and fixing errors in text, including substituting incorrect words, inserting missing content, and deleting extraneous characters or words. For blind users, text correction o…