Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Embossed Braille (Hard Copy Braille, Paper Braille)
- Braille text produced by physically raising dots on paper or other materials, creating a tactile surface that can be read by touch. Embossed Braille is produced using Braille embossers (printers), sla…
- Embossed Graphics (Embossed Tactile Graphics, Raised Graphics)
- Tactile graphics produced by a braille embosser or similar device that creates raised dots and lines on heavy paper or card stock. Embossed graphics are one of the most common methods for producing ta…
- Embossed Paper (Raised Paper, Tactile Paper)
- Paper that has been processed to create raised textures, shapes, or text that can be perceived through touch. In accessibility contexts, embossed paper is used to represent visual information non-visu…
- Embosser (Braille Embosser, Tactile Graphics Embosser)
- A device that creates raised (embossed) output on paper or other materials, used to produce braille text and tactile graphics for people who are blind or have low vision. Braille embossers function si…
- Embossing (Braille Embossing, Tactile Embossing)
- The process of creating raised patterns on paper or other materials by pressing from behind, producing content that can be read by touch. In accessibility, embossing is the primary method for producin…
- Embroidered Braille
- Braille text produced using machine embroidery rather than traditional embossing methods. Embroidered braille uses raised stitch patterns (typically candlewick knots) to create the dots of braille cel…
- Emergency Evacuation Accessibility (Accessible Emergency Egress, Inclusive Emergency Evacuation)
- The design of emergency evacuation procedures, systems, and infrastructure that enable people with disabilities to independently and safely exit buildings during emergencies. Traditional evacuation sy…
- Emergency Preparedness (Disaster Preparedness, Crisis Preparedness)
- The planning, policies, and infrastructure put in place to ensure that communities can respond effectively to emergencies such as natural disasters, pandemics, and other crises. In accessibility conte…
- Emergent Communicator (Beginning Communicator, Pre-Symbolic Communicator)
- A person who is in the early stages of learning to use symbolic communication — understanding that symbols, words, pictures, or signs can represent objects, actions, and concepts. Emergent communicato…
- Emergent Literacy (Early Literacy, Pre-literacy)
- The developmental process through which young children (typically birth through age 5) acquire foundational skills and concepts about reading and writing before formal instruction begins. For sighted …
- Emoji (Emojis)
- Small pictographic characters — faces, gestures, objects, symbols — encoded as Unicode code points and rendered by platform-specific font sets, used to convey affect, tone, and non-verbal nuance in ot…
- EmojiGrid (Emoji Grid, EmojiGrid Scale)
- A two-dimensional self-report tool, developed by Toet et al. (2018), in which participants rate the emotional content of a stimulus by clicking on a point in a grid whose axes are valence (horizontal)…
- Emotion Recognition (Facial Emotion Recognition, FER, Affect Recognition)
- AI technology that attempts to identify human emotional states from facial expressions, voice patterns, body language, or physiological signals. Emotion recognition systems have been widely criticized…
- Emotion Regulation (Affect Regulation, Self-Regulation of Emotion)
- The processes by which a person monitors, evaluates, and modifies emotional reactions to achieve goals or meet situational demands — including selecting or changing situations, directing attention, re…
- Emotional Accessibility (Psychological Accessibility)
- The consideration of emotional and psychological impacts in accessibility design, recognizing that inaccessible technology affects not only task completion but also users' confidence, autonomy, stress…
- Emotional Agency
- The ability of an individual to independently manage their emotional responses and experiences, particularly when encountering sensitive or personal information. In the context of accessibility and ge…
- Emotional Design
- A framework developed by Don Norman describing how people evaluate and form attachments to products through three cognitive levels: visceral (immediate sensory and aesthetic responses), behavioral (fu…
- Emotional Dysregulation (Emotion Dysregulation, Emotional Impulsivity, Affective Dysregulation, Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation)
- Difficulty managing emotional responses, characterized by rapid, intense, and often disproportionate reactions to stimuli with limited reflection or regulation. Emotional dysregulation is a core yet f…
- Emotional Engagement (Affective Engagement)
- The degree to which a user connects emotionally with content, characters, and narrative, experiencing feelings such as excitement, tension, empathy, humor, or sadness in response to the media. In acce…
- Emotional Intelligence Test (EI Test, I-EQ Test, Emotional Intelligence Assessment)
- A hiring assessment that asks candidates to identify emotions in photographs of faces or to judge appropriate emotional responses in social scenarios. Emotional-intelligence tests are particularly ina…