Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
- The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of the nine colleges of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), is the first and largest technical college in the world for students who are …
- National Transition Strategy (NTS) (NTS, Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy)
- The Australian Government's National Transition Strategy was a formal policy established in June 2010 requiring all federal, state, and territory government websites to conform to WCAG 2.0. It set sta…
- Native Signer (Native Sign Language User, L1 Signer)
- A person who acquired a sign language as their first language (L1) during the critical period of language development, typically before age 5. Native signers usually learned sign language from deaf pa…
- Natural Language Command (Natural Language Input, Conversational Command)
- A user input expressed in everyday spoken or written language rather than structured syntax or specific command formats. In accessibility contexts, natural language commands enable BLV users to intera…
- Natural Language Generation (NLG, Text Generation)
- A subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics focused on automatically producing human-readable text from structured data or other non-linguistic representations. In accessibilit…
- Natural Language Interface (NLI, Natural Language User Interface)
- A user interface that allows people to interact with technology using everyday language rather than specialized commands, menus, or graphical controls. Natural language interfaces can improve accessib…
- Natural Language Processing (NLP, Computational Linguistics)
- A branch of artificial intelligence that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. In accessibility, NLP powers voice-based assistive technologies, automatic captioning,…
- Natural Language Query (NLQ, Conversational Query, Natural Language Search)
- An interaction paradigm where users pose questions or issue commands in everyday language rather than using structured search syntax, predefined filters, or navigation controls. In accessibility conte…
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU, Intent Recognition, Language Understanding)
- A branch of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret the meaning and intent behind human language input, rather than requiring exact predetermined phrases or commands. In accessibil…
- Natural Speech Output (Recorded Speech, Digitized Speech)
- Speech output produced from digital recordings of actual human speakers, as opposed to artificially generated synthetic speech. Natural speech output preserves the prosody, intonation, emotion, and vo…
- Natural User Interface (NUI)
- A user interface designed to feel intuitive and invisible, allowing users to interact with technology through natural behaviors such as gestures, voice, touch, or body movement rather than learned con…
- Nature Engagement (Engagement with Nature)
- The active, lived practice of spending time in and interacting with natural environments - walking in parks, gardening, listening to birdsong, touching plants, sitting by water, and similar embodied e…
- Nature Relatedness (Nature Relatedness Scale, NRS, Nature Connectedness)
- A psychological construct describing the strength of a person's affective, cognitive, and experiential connection to the natural world. It is most often measured with the 21-item Nature Relatedness Sc…
- NavCog (Navigational Cognitive Assistant)
- A Bluetooth beacon-based navigation system developed at Carnegie Mellon University that provides indoor turn-by-turn navigation assistance and environmental information to blind and visually impaired …
- NavTap
- A navigational text-entry method designed for blind mobile phone users that reduces the cognitive load associated with inputting text without visual feedback. NavTap organizes the alphabet into five r…
- Navigability (Ease of Navigation, Web Navigability)
- The ease and efficiency with which a user can move through a web page, application, or document to reach their intended content. For accessibility practice, navigability is a primary determinant of wh…
- Navigation
- The task of moving through an environment to reach a destination, encompassing route planning, mode selection, real-time decision-making, and responding to obstacles. In accessibility research, naviga…
- Navigation Axis (Multi-Axial Navigation, Axis-Based Navigation)
- A navigation axis is a concept from screen reader research describing a specific linear serialization of a subset of web page elements that represents one navigation strategy. Rather than forcing blin…
- 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…
- Navigation Order (Focus Order, Tab Order, Reading Order)
- The sequence in which a user encounters interface elements when navigating with assistive technology, a keyboard, or other non-visual means. A logical navigation order follows the visual layout and se…