Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Online Community (Virtual Community, Online Forum)
- A group of people who interact and share information through internet-based platforms such as mailing lists, forums, social media groups, or Q&A sites. For people with disabilities, online communities…
- Online Disability Community (Disability Online Forum, Digital Disability Community)
- Internet-based spaces where people with disabilities connect to share experiences, seek advice, provide peer support, and collaborate on problem-solving. Platforms like Reddit, Facebook groups, and sp…
- Online Focus Group (Virtual Focus Group, Remote Focus Group)
- A qualitative research method in which a group of participants discusses a topic through an online platform rather than meeting in person. Online focus groups are particularly valuable for accessibili…
- Online Health Communities (OHCs)
- Internet-based communities where people affected by a shared health condition exchange experiential knowledge, emotional support, and practical coping strategies. Traditionally hosted on dedicated for…
- Online Health Community (OHC, Digital Health Community, Online Support Group)
- A digital space where individuals with shared health conditions, disabilities, or wellness concerns connect to exchange information, provide emotional support, share experiences, and discuss treatment…
- Online Peer Support (Digital Peer Support, Online Mutual Aid)
- The exchange of information, emotional encouragement, and practical advice between individuals with shared experiences through digital platforms such as forums, social media groups, and dedicated supp…
- Onomatopoeia
- Words that phonetically imitate or suggest the sound they describe, such as "buzz," "crash," "swoosh," or "sizzle." In captioning, onomatopoeia is one approach to representing non-speech sounds, offer…
- Ontology (Web Ontology, Knowledge Ontology)
- In computing and information science, a formal representation of knowledge within a domain, consisting of concepts, categories, properties, and the relationships between them. Ontologies enable machin…
- Open Captioning (Open Captions, Burned-In Captions)
- Captions that are permanently embedded into the video image and cannot be turned off by the viewer. Unlike closed captions, open captions are part of the visual content itself, making them visible to …
- Open Captions (Burned-in Captions, Hard-coded Captions)
- Captions that are permanently embedded into a video and cannot be turned off by the viewer. Unlike closed captions, which can be toggled on or off, open captions are always visible as part of the vide…
- Open Data (Open Government Data, Public Data)
- Data that is published and made freely available to everyone without copyright or patent restrictions, following the premise that transparency enables public accountability and innovation. In accessib…
- Open Data (Open Government Data)
- Data that is freely available to anyone to use, redistribute, and republish without restrictions from copyright, patents, or other control mechanisms. In the accessibility context, open data initiativ…
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that are freely available for use, adaptation, and redistribution. OER can include textbooks, course materials, videos, assessments, and softwa…
- Open Sound Control (OSC)
- An open, network-based protocol for communication between computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices, developed by Matthew Wright and Adrian Freed (1997). OSC sends human-readable add…
- Open Source (Open-Source Software, OSS, FOSS)
- Software whose source code is publicly available and can be freely used, modified, and distributed, typically developed collaboratively through platforms like GitHub. Open-source development models ha…
- Open access (OA, Open access publishing)
- A publishing model that makes scholarly research freely available to anyone online, removing subscription paywalls that traditionally restrict access to academic journals. While open access has signif…
- Open-Source Hardware (OSHW)
- Physical devices and components whose design specifications are publicly available for anyone to study, modify, distribute, and manufacture. In the assistive technology space, open-source hardware ena…
- Open-Vocabulary Detection (Open-Vocabulary Object Detection, OVD)
- A class of computer vision object detection models that accept arbitrary text queries at inference time rather than being restricted to a fixed set of pre-trained classes. Instead of only recognizing,…
- OpenDocument Format (ODF, OASIS ODF)
- An open, XML-based file format standard for office documents maintained by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). ODF includes specifications for text documents,…
- OpenDyslexic (Open Dyslexic)
- A free, open-source typeface specifically designed to improve readability for people with dyslexia. The font uses heavier bottom portions on letters to help prevent visual rotation and uses unique let…