Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Situational Disability (Situational Impairment, Situational Limitation, SIID)
- A temporary reduction in ability caused by a person's environment or context rather than a permanent condition. Examples include difficulty reading a screen in bright sunlight (visual), being unable t…
- Situational Disability (Situational Impairment, Contextual Disability)
- A temporary limitation in ability caused by environmental circumstances rather than a permanent condition. Examples include being unable to read a screen in bright sunlight (visual), not hearing audio…
- Situational Impairment (Situational Disability, Situationally-Induced Impairment)
- A temporary reduction in a person's ability to interact with technology caused by their environment or context rather than a permanent condition. Examples include using a phone in bright sunlight (vis…
- Situational Judgment Test (SJT, Situational Judgement Test)
- A hiring assessment that presents candidates with hypothetical workplace scenarios and asks them to select the "best" and "worst" responses from a predefined multiple-choice list. SJTs assume a single…
- Situational Limitations (Situational Impairments, Contextual Limitations)
- Temporary constraints on a user's ability to interact with technology due to their environment, device, or circumstances rather than a permanent disability. Examples include using a mobile phone in br…
- Situational Trust (Situational Trust in Automation)
- A context-sensitive form of trust in an automated system that varies moment-to-moment based on perceived system performance, environment, and the user's own capacity to intervene. Unlike dispositional…
- Situational Visual Impairment (SVI, Situational Visual Impairments)
- A temporary reduction in a person's effective vision or reading performance caused by the environment or context rather than by a medical condition. Common examples include trying to read a phone scre…
- Situationally Induced Impairment (SIID, Situational Impairment, Situational Disability)
- A temporary functional limitation caused by environmental or contextual factors rather than a permanent health condition or disability. Examples include difficulty using a phone while walking (reduced…
- Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities (SIIDs, Situationally Induced Impairments and Disabilities, Situation-Induced Disabilities)
- An accessibility framework, introduced by Sears et al., that describes how everyday environments and tasks can temporarily impose the same kinds of barriers on non-disabled users that permanent impair…
- Skeleton Tracking (skeletal tracking, body tracking, pose estimation)
- Technology that detects and tracks the positions of human body joints (such as head, shoulders, elbows, hands) in real-time from camera or depth sensor data. In accessibility applications, skeleton tr…
- Skeuomorphic Design (Skeuomorphism)
- A design approach in which digital interface elements are made to resemble their real-world physical counterparts in appearance and behavior. For example, a digital notepad might have lined paper text…
- Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM)
- An online matchmaking approach that attempts to pair competitors of similar demonstrated skill so that matches are appropriately challenging. SBMM is the dominant industry response to ability imbalanc…
- Skilled Vision (Vernacular Vision, Professional Vision)
- Skilled vision is a concept from visual culture and anthropology that describes the process of learning to see and interpret visual information in specialized ways within a particular community of pra…
- Skimming (Scanning, Speed Reading, Content Skimming)
- Skimming is a speed-reading technique in which a reader quickly glances through text to get the general idea or gist without reading every word. Sighted readers skim by scanning headlines, bold text, …
- Skimming Interface (Skim Reading Tool, Speed Reading Interface)
- A technology interface designed to help users quickly scan and identify relevant content within a text without reading every word. Skimming interfaces have been particularly explored for blind and low…
- Skin Conductance (SC, Skin Conductance Response, SCR, Skin Conductance Level, SCL)
- A measure of the electrical conductance of the skin, which increases with sweat gland activity. Skin conductance is commonly used as an index of emotional arousal or sympathetic nervous system activat…
- Skin Stretch (Tangential Skin Stretch)
- A haptic feedback technique that conveys directional or magnitude information by laterally stretching the skin at the fingertip, palm, or other contact point rather than by vibration or kinesthetic fo…
- Skin Stretch Display (Skin Stretch, Lateral Skin Deformation Display, STReSS)
- A type of haptic display technology that produces tactile feedback by laterally stretching the skin of the user's fingertip, rather than using raised pins or vibration. Skin stretch displays typically…
- Skip Link (Skip Navigation Link, Skip Nav, Bypass Block)
- A hidden or visible hyperlink placed at the beginning of a web page that allows keyboard and screen reader users to jump directly to the main content, bypassing repeated navigation elements. Skip link…
- Skip Navigation (Skip Link, Skip Nav, Bypass Block)
- A mechanism, typically an in-page anchor link placed at the very beginning of a web page, that allows keyboard and screen reader users to bypass repetitive content such as navigation menus and jump di…