Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Webtoon Accessibility
- The practice of making webtoons—vertically scrolling digital comics—accessible to people with disabilities, particularly blind and low vision users. Key challenges include converting rich visual narra…
- Weed-Out Course (Gateway Course, Gatekeeper Course, Barrier Course)
- A course in higher education, typically in STEM fields, that is perceived as intentionally rigorous to filter out students who are deemed unlikely to succeed in a given discipline. Courses like organi…
- Well-being (Wellbeing, Well Being)
- Well-being is a multi-dimensional construct covering a person's physical health, psychological state, social connectedness, autonomy, and environmental quality of life. Accessibility research uses wel…
- Well-being Monitoring (Health Monitoring, Remote Health Monitoring, Ambient Assisted Living)
- The use of sensors, devices, and software systems to track and report on an individual's health and daily living indicators — such as mobility, sleep patterns, eating and drinking habits, personal hyg…
- Wernicke's Aphasia (Fluent Aphasia, Receptive Aphasia, Sensory Aphasia, Posterior Aphasia)
- A type of aphasia caused by damage to Wernicke's area in the left temporal lobe of the brain. People with Wernicke's aphasia can produce fluent speech with normal rhythm and grammar, but their words o…
- Western Aphasia Battery (WAB, WAB-R, Western Aphasia Battery-Revised)
- A standardized assessment tool used to evaluate language function in adults with acquired neurological disorders, particularly aphasia following stroke or brain injury. The WAB measures spontaneous sp…
- Wheelchair (Manual Wheelchair, Power Wheelchair, Wheeled Mobility Device)
- A mobility assistive device consisting of a chair mounted on wheels, used by people who have difficulty walking or cannot walk due to illness, injury, or disability. Wheelchairs range from basic manua…
- Wheelchair Accessibility (Wheelchair Access, Wheeled Mobility Access)
- The degree to which physical environments, facilities, and services can be used by people who use wheelchairs. Wheelchair accessibility encompasses a wide range of factors including doorway widths, ra…
- Wheelchair Assessment (Wheelchair Evaluation, Seating Assessment)
- A structured clinical process conducted by trained rehabilitation professionals to determine the most appropriate wheelchair and seating system for an individual. The assessment typically involves mul…
- Wheelchair Basketball
- An adaptive version of basketball played by athletes using sport-specific wheelchairs. The game follows similar rules to standing basketball with modifications for wheelchair use, including a classifi…
- Wheelchair Provision (Wheelchair Service Delivery, Wheelchair Service)
- The comprehensive process of ensuring that individuals who need wheelchairs receive appropriate products along with the related services necessary for safe and effective use. As defined by the World H…
- Wheelchair Rugby (Murderball, Quad Rugby)
- A competitive adaptive sport for athletes with impairments affecting all four limbs, originally designed for athletes with quadriplegia. Played on an indoor court, it combines elements of rugby, baske…
- Wheelchair Seating (Wheelchair Positioning)
- The configuration and customization of a wheelchair's seating components to provide appropriate support, comfort, and functional positioning for the user. Proper wheelchair seating considers trunk sup…
- Wheelchair Service Provision (Wheelchair Service Delivery)
- The systematic process of assessing, fitting, providing, and following up on wheelchair users to ensure they receive appropriate mobility devices matched to their individual needs, environment, and li…
- Wheelchair Service Steps (Wheelchair Service Delivery Process)
- The structured sequence of activities involved in providing appropriate wheelchair services to individuals with mobility impairments. These steps typically include assessment (evaluating the user's ph…
- Wheelchair Sports
- Athletic activities played by athletes who use wheelchairs, either due to mobility impairments or as part of the sport's rules. Common wheelchair sports include basketball, rugby, tennis, racing, and …
- Wheelchair User
- A person who uses a manual or powered wheelchair as their primary means of mobility. In VR accessibility research, wheelchair users face specific challenges including: controllers that require both ha…
- Wheelchair-Accessible Taxi (WAT, Wheelchair Taxi, Accessible Taxi)
- A taxi or on-demand vehicle fitted with a ramp or lift and interior tie-down points that allow a passenger to travel while seated in their wheelchair. Wheelchair-accessible taxis are a core component …
- Whisper (OpenAI Whisper, Whisper ASR)
- An open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model released by OpenAI in 2022, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised audio data. Whisper supports transcription in doze…
- Whispered Speech (Whisper, Whispering)
- A mode of speech production in which the vocal folds do not vibrate periodically; sound is generated by turbulent airflow through a narrow glottal opening. Whispered speech lacks a fundamental frequen…