Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Monarch (Monarch Tactile Display, Dynamic Tactile Device)
- The Monarch is a multi-line refreshable tactile display developed by HumanWare and the American Printing House for the Blind, representing a significant advancement in tactile display technology. Unli…
- Money Management (Personal Finance Management)
- The everyday practices of tracking income and spending, budgeting, paying bills, saving, and making purchasing decisions. For people with cognitive or developmental disabilities, money management is o…
- Moneywork
- A term coined by sociologist Sandra Colavecchia and introduced to HCI by Perry and Ferreira, describing the often-invisible labour of managing personal and household finances. Moneywork includes pract…
- Monochromacy (Achromatopsia, Total Color Blindness)
- The rarest and most severe form of color vision deficiency, in which an individual has complete or near-complete absence of color perception, seeing the world only in shades of gray. Monochromacy occu…
- Monocular (Handheld Monocular, Bioptic Telescope)
- A small, handheld or head-mounted telescope used by people with low vision to magnify distant objects. Monoculars are commonly used in educational settings to view chalkboards, whiteboards, and projec…
- Monospaced Font (fixed-width font, fixed-pitch font, non-proportional font)
- A typeface in which every character occupies the same horizontal space, regardless of its width. Examples include Courier, Consolas, and Monaco. Research shows monospaced fonts like Courier lead to sh…
- Monotropism
- A cognitive theory of autism, developed by Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser, and Wenn Lawson, that describes autistic attention as tending to be pulled strongly into a narrow focus (one "attention tunnel") r…
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
- A widely used cognitive screening tool designed to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The MoCA assesses multiple cognitive domains including short-term memory, visuospatial abilities, executive f…
- Mood (Affect, Affective State)
- In affective computing and music research, the emotional quality a stimulus evokes in a listener or viewer, commonly characterized along dimensions such as valence (pleasant–unpleasant) and arousal (c…
- Moodle
- An open-source learning management system (LMS) used worldwide by universities, schools, and workplaces for course delivery, assessment, and content hosting. Moodle supports accessibility through them…
- Moral Model of Disability (Religious Model of Disability)
- A historical framework that attributes disability to moral failing, divine punishment, or supernatural causes such as curses or sins. Under this model, disability is viewed as a consequence of wrongdo…
- Morphological NMS (Morphological Non-Manual Sign)
- Non-manual signs that modify or add grammatical meaning to manual signs, functioning similarly to morphemes in spoken languages. In ASL, morphological NMS convey information about degree, intensity, s…
- Morse Code (Morse Code Input)
- A communication system that encodes text characters as sequences of short signals (dots) and long signals (dashes). Originally developed for telegraphy, Morse code has found significant application in…
- Motion Capture (MoCap, Movement Tracking)
- Technology that records the movements of people or objects, typically using cameras, sensors, or computer vision, and translates them into digital data for animation or analysis. In sign language appl…
- Motion Design (Motion Graphics, Motion-Driven Design)
- The practice of animating graphic elements - text, icons, diagrams, captions - in time-based media to communicate instructional content. In accessible educational video, motion design is used to guide…
- Motion Gaming (Motion-Based Gaming, Gesture-Based Gaming)
- Video games that use body movements as input, typically through motion-sensing controllers (Nintendo Wii) or depth cameras (Microsoft Kinect) rather than traditional button-based controllers. Motion g…
- Motion History Image (MHI)
- A computer vision technique that represents motion in video sequences as a single grayscale image, where pixel intensity indicates recency of movement. Brighter pixels represent more recent motion whi…
- Motion Impairment (Motor Impairment, Physical Impairment, Mobility Impairment)
- A condition that limits a person's ability to control voluntary physical movement, affecting fine or gross motor skills, strength, coordination, or range of motion. Motion impairments may result from …
- Motion Sensor (Motion Detection, Gesture Sensor)
- A device that detects physical movement in its environment, often by tracking body position, joint angles, or gestures. In accessibility and assistive technology, motion sensors enable touchless inter…
- Motion Sickness (Cybersickness, Simulator Sickness, VR Sickness)
- A condition characterized by nausea, disorientation, and discomfort experienced when using virtual reality, simulators, or viewing motion-heavy content. In VR accessibility, motion sickness disproport…