Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Transcoding (Content transcoding, Web transcoding)
- The process of converting or transforming web content from one format or structural representation to another to improve accessibility. In the context of screen reader access, transcoding can involve …
- Transcript (Text Transcript, Video Transcript, Audio Transcript)
- A written document containing the complete text of spoken content from a video or audio recording, presented separately from the media rather than synchronized with it. Unlike captions, which appear o…
- Transcription (Speech-to-Text Transcription, Real-Time Transcription)
- The process of converting spoken language into written text, either in real time or after the fact. In accessibility contexts, transcription services provide communication access for deaf and hard of …
- Transcripts (Transcript, Text Transcript)
- A written, text-based representation of spoken audio or audiovisual content. WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.1 (Audio-only and Video-only Prerecorded) requires an alternative for time-based media — typ…
- Transfer Function (Mapping Function, Control-Display Gain)
- A mathematical function that defines the relationship between an input signal and an output response in a control system. In assistive technology and pointer control, a transfer function determines ho…
- Transfer Learning
- A machine learning technique where a model trained on a large general dataset is adapted to perform a new, more specific task using a much smaller amount of new training data. Rather than training a m…
- Transfer Machine Translation (Transfer MT, Rule-Based Transfer Translation)
- A rule-based machine-translation paradigm that analyses the source text into a syntactic or semantic structure, applies a set of transfer rules to produce a corresponding structure in the target langu…
- Transferable Skills (Portable Skills, Cross-Functional Skills)
- Abilities and competencies that can be applied across different jobs, industries, and contexts rather than being specific to a single role. In vocational rehabilitation and disability employment conte…
- Transformation Proxy (Transcoding Proxy, Web Accessibility Proxy)
- A transformation proxy is an intermediary server that sits between a user and the web, intercepting web pages and modifying their content before delivering them to the user's browser. In accessibility…
- Transformative Access
- A concept from disability justice that redefines accessibility beyond structural adjustments or compliance with standards. Introduced by the disability justice group Sins Invalid, transformative acces…
- Transformer (Transformer Model, Transformer Architecture)
- A deep learning architecture introduced by Vaswani et al. in 2017 that relies entirely on attention mechanisms rather than recurrence (RNNs) or convolution for sequence modeling tasks. Transformers pr…
- Transinstitutionalization
- The transition of disabled people from one type of institutional setting to another rather than to genuine community-based living. For example, the movement of disabled individuals from clinical insti…
- Transit Accessibility (Public Transit Accessibility, Transportation Accessibility)
- The degree to which public transportation systems — including rail, bus, and subway networks — can be used by people with disabilities and others with mobility needs. Transit accessibility encompasses…
- Transit accessibility (Public transportation accessibility, Accessible transit)
- The degree to which public transportation systems — including buses, trains, subways, and associated infrastructure like stops, stations, and information systems — are usable by people with disabiliti…
- Transition Period (School-to-Adult Transition, Transition Services)
- In disability services, the transition period refers to the years during which a young person with a disability moves from school-based supports into adult life. In the United States, school systems a…
- Transitional Object (Comfort Object)
- A concept from developmental psychology, introduced by D. W. Winnicott, referring to a soft, often tactile object - a blanket, stuffed toy, or similar - that a child uses to support self-soothing and …
- Translanguaging
- The practice of drawing on multiple languages within a single interaction or communication act, leveraging a person's full linguistic repertoire rather than treating languages as separate, bounded sys…
- Translated Deaf Self
- A concept coined by Alys Young, Jemina Napier, and Rosemary Oram describing how deaf signers' lifelong experiences of being encountered, represented, and inter-subjectively known by others occur in a …
- Transliteration (Sign Language Transliteration)
- The word-by-word conversion of text from one system into another — for example, rendering a name in one script using the characters of another. In sign-language accessibility the term has a specific m…
- Transparency in AI (AI Transparency, Algorithmic Transparency)
- The principle that AI systems should clearly communicate how they work, what data they use, where processing occurs, and what their limitations are. In accessibility contexts, blind users have express…