Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Text Skimming (Content Skimming, Accessible Skimming)
- A reading strategy where a person quickly reviews a document to get an overview of its content, identify key points, and locate specific information without reading every word. Sighted readers skim us…
- Text Spotting (Scene Text Detection)
- A computer vision technique that detects and localizes text within images in real time, without actually performing OCR recognition. Text spotting algorithms identify where text appears in a camera fr…
- Text-Mode Browser (Text Browser, Terminal Browser, Console Browser)
- A web browser that renders web pages as text only, without displaying images or graphical layout, typically running in a command-line terminal or console environment. The most well-known text-mode bro…
- Text-Only Browser (Text Browser, Text-Based Browser)
- A web browser that renders pages as plain text without images, styling, or complex layouts, displaying only the textual content and link structure. Examples include WebbIE, Lynx, and Links. Text-only …
- Text-to-Audio (Text-to-Audio Generation, TTA)
- A class of generative AI models that synthesise non-speech sound (environmental sounds, sound effects, music stems) from a text prompt - for example producing the sound of 'leaves rustling in wind' or…
- Text-to-Image (Text-to-Image Generation, T2I)
- An AI capability that generates visual images from natural language text descriptions (prompts). Text-to-image models like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have opened new creative possibiliti…
- Text-to-Image Generation (Text-to-Image AI, Text-to-Image Synthesis)
- An artificial intelligence capability that creates visual images from natural language text descriptions, also known as prompts. Tools such as DALL-E, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion use large-scale …
- Text-to-Image Model (T2I Model, T2I, Text-to-Image Generator)
- A generative AI system that produces images from natural-language prompts. Prominent examples include DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. In accessibility contexts, text-to-image models have bee…
- Text-to-Sound (Text-to-Audio, TTA, Sound Generation from Text)
- A class of generative AI models that synthesize non-speech audio - sound effects, ambient environments, foley, or short music clips - from a natural-language description such as 'a door creaking shut'…
- Text-to-Speech (TTS, Speech Synthesis, Screen Reading)
- Technology that converts written text into spoken audio output, using either pre-recorded speech segments or synthesized voices. Text-to-speech is a foundational accessibility technology used by scree…
- Text-to-Speech (TTS, Speech Synthesis)
- Technology that converts written text into spoken audio output. Text-to-speech is a fundamental component of many assistive technologies, including screen readers, audio description tools, and communi…
- Text-to-Video (T2V, Text-to-Video Generation)
- A class of generative AI models that produces short video clips from natural-language prompts (and sometimes reference images). Examples at the time of writing include Runway Gen, OpenAI Sora, Google …
- Text-to-speech (TTS, Speech synthesis)
- Technology that converts written text into spoken audio output. Text-to-speech is the primary output method used by screen readers to convey digital content to blind and low-vision users. The quality …
- Textile Crafts (Fiber Arts, Fiber Crafts)
- Textile crafts are hand processes that produce or use textiles (flexible materials made from fibres and filaments) for functional and aesthetic applications. Common textile crafts include knitting, cr…
- Textonym (T9 Ambiguity)
- Words that share the same sequence of key presses on a telephone-style number pad, such as "bat" and "cat" which both map to the key sequence 2-2-8. Textonyms are a significant design consideration in…
- Texture Differentiation (Tactile Discrimination)
- The ability to perceive and distinguish between different textures through touch. In the context of tactile graphics, texture differentiation is the fundamental perceptual capacity that allows readers…
- Texture Perception (Texture sense, Tactile texture perception)
- The perceptual capacity to detect and characterize surface properties — roughness, smoothness, bumpiness, graininess, stickiness, and directional patterns — through touch, vision, or cross-modal integ…
- The vOICe (vOICe)
- One of the earliest and most widely studied visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices, developed by Peter Meijer in 1992. The vOICe converts camera images into sound by scanning left to right, m…
- Theater in Design (Forum Theater, Design Theater)
- A participatory design technique using professional actors to portray users with disabilities or older adults, allowing design teams to engage with user needs without directly involving potentially fr…
- Thematic Analysis (TA)
- A qualitative research method for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within data. Thematic analysis involves systematically coding data, grouping codes into themes, and refining t…