Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Linguistic Minority (Language Minority)
- A group whose primary language differs from the dominant language of the surrounding society, often placing them at a disadvantage in education, employment, civic participation, and access to informat…
- Link Annotation (Link Augmentation, Link Labelling)
- The practice of adding supplementary information to hyperlinks to help users make informed navigation decisions before clicking. In web accessibility, link annotations may include the accessibility le…
- Link Context (Anchor Context, Link Surrounding Context)
- The text and information surrounding a hypertext link that helps users understand the link's purpose and destination. For sighted users, link context is often apparent from the visual layout — heading…
- Link Preview (Link Destination Preview, Link Target Preview)
- Information about the content or nature of a hypertext link's destination page, provided to users before they follow the link. Link previews help users make informed navigation decisions, reducing the…
- Link Purpose (Link Purpose (In Context), WCAG 2.4.4, Link Text)
- A WCAG 2.4.4 Level A success criterion requiring that the purpose of each link be determinable from the link text alone, or from the link text together with its programmatically determined context (su…
- Linked Data (Linked Open Data, LOD)
- A method of publishing structured data on the web so that it can be interlinked and queried across different sources using standard web technologies such as URIs and RDF (Resource Description Framewor…
- Linked Data (Linked Open Data, LOD)
- A method of publishing structured data on the web so that it can be interlinked and queried across different sources using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, URIs, and SPARQL. Linked Data principl…
- Lip Reading (Speechreading, Visual Speech Perception)
- The practice of interpreting speech by visually observing the speaker mouth movements, facial expressions, and gestures. While commonly associated with deaf and hard of hearing individuals, lip readin…
- Lip-reading (Speechreading, Speech Reading, Visual Speech Perception)
- The practice of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face, and tongue, often used by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals as a communication strategy. Lip-reading r…
- Lipreading (Lip reading, Speechreading (narrow sense))
- The practice of understanding spoken language by visually interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips, tongue, teeth, jaw, and facial expression. Lipreading is used by many Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing…
- List-Based Interface (List View, Linear Interface)
- An interface layout that presents information as a sequential list rather than in a grid, table, or spatial layout. In accessibility contexts, list-based interfaces are generally more screen reader-fr…
- Listenability (Auditory Readability, Speech-Output Quality)
- A web-accessibility usability metric that measures how appropriate a page's rendered text is when read aloud by a screen reader or voice browser — complementary to, and distinct from, raw WCAG conform…
- Listener Feedback (Listener Response, Feedback Signals)
- The signals produced by a listener during conversation that communicate their attentiveness, understanding, agreement, confusion, or emotional response to the speaker without taking a full conversatio…
- Listening Fatigue (Auditory Fatigue)
- The mental and physical exhaustion experienced from sustained effortful listening, commonly reported by people who are Hard of Hearing or use hearing aids and cochlear implants. Listening fatigue can …
- Listening Rate (Comprehension Speed, Listening Speed)
- The maximum speed at which an individual can accurately comprehend spoken or synthesized speech, typically measured as a normalized value or in words per minute. Research shows that experienced screen…
- Listening Window
- The interval during which a voice assistant or speech-recognition system actively captures user audio after being activated (by wake word or button press). A short or fixed listening window causes pre…
- Literacy Bias (Literacy bias of a metric)
- In accessibility research methodology, a literacy bias describes the phenomenon where an evaluation metric systematically produces different scores for participants with different reading-literacy lev…
- Literacy Development (Literacy Learning, Reading Development)
- The process of acquiring reading and writing skills, from early phonological awareness through fluent reading comprehension. Literacy development is a key focus of reading support technology research,…
- Literal language processing (Literal interpretation)
- The tendency to interpret language at face value, understanding words and phrases according to their explicit, dictionary meaning rather than inferring implied, figurative, or contextual meanings. Lit…
- Live Captioning (Real-Time Captioning, Live Captions)
- The process of converting spoken language into text displayed in real time, enabling Deaf and hard of hearing individuals to follow live audio content such as meetings, lectures, broadcasts, and event…