Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Brushing and Linking (Brush and Link, Linked Highlighting)
- An interactive visualization technique where selecting or highlighting data in one chart automatically highlights the corresponding data in other linked charts within a dashboard. For example, clickin…
- Brute-Force Fallback (Reset Strategy, Exhaustive Recovery)
- A workaround strategy employed by assistive technology users when standard interaction methods fail, involving systematically trying all available options or completely restarting a task from a known …
- Bubble Cursor (Dynamic Cursor, Area Cursor)
- An enhanced pointing technique that dynamically resizes the cursor's activation area to make target selection easier, particularly for users with motor impairments. The bubble cursor expands to encomp…
- Bubble Cursor (Area Cursor, Enhanced Area Cursor)
- An assistive pointing technique where the cursor's activation area is dynamically enlarged to make it easier to select targets on screen. Rather than requiring precise pixel-level accuracy, a bubble c…
- Buddy Button
- A widely used commercial assistive technology switch manufactured by AbleNet, designed for single-switch access to computers, communication devices, and adapted toys. Buddy Buttons are large, colorful…
- Bug Report (Defect Report, Issue Report)
- A structured document submitted to a bug tracking system that describes a software defect, including steps to reproduce, expected behavior, and actual behavior. In the accessibility context, bug repor…
- Bug Repository (Bug Tracker, Issue Tracker, Bug Tracking System)
- A software system used to record, track, and manage bug reports throughout their lifecycle. Popular examples include Bugzilla, Jira, GitHub Issues, and Monorail (used by Google Chromium). Bug reposito…
- Built environment
- The human-made surroundings that provide the setting for daily activity, encompassing buildings, streets, sidewalks, parks, transit systems, and all other constructed infrastructure. In accessibility,…
- Bus stop accessibility (Accessible bus stops, Bus stop landmarks)
- The design, infrastructure, and information features that make bus stops findable, identifiable, and usable by people with disabilities. For blind and low-vision riders, bus stop accessibility depends…
- Busyness (Activity Level, Activity Intensity)
- In the telecare literature, busyness is a coarse-grained measure of overall domestic activity — typically the count of ambient sensor firings per room per time period — used as a proxy for a resident'…
- Bystander privacy (Third-party privacy, Incidental privacy)
- The privacy concerns of people who are unintentionally captured or observed by technology being used by others. In the context of assistive technology, bystander privacy refers to the rights and conce…
- C-Print (C-Print Pro)
- A meaning-for-meaning real-time captioning service where a trained captioner produces a condensed transcription of spoken classroom content, as opposed to the verbatim word-for-word transcription prov…
- C-tactile Afferents (CT afferents, C-tactile fibres, CT fibres)
- Unmyelinated, slow-conducting nerve fibres found in hairy skin that respond selectively to gentle, slow stroking touch at velocities of approximately 1-10 cm/s. C-tactile afferents are strongly associ…
- C2C Marketplace (Customer-to-Customer Marketplace, Peer-to-Peer Marketplace)
- An online platform where individual consumers list goods or services for sale to other individual consumers, rather than selling through a business intermediary. Examples include eBay, Etsy, Mercari, …
- CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)
- A challenge-response test used on websites to determine whether a user is human, typically requiring users to identify distorted text, select images, or solve puzzles. CAPTCHAs present significant acc…
- CARE Principles (CARE, Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics)
- A set of people-and-purpose-oriented principles for Indigenous data governance developed by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance — Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics —…
- CART (Communication Access Real-time Translation, Communication Access Realtime Transcription, Real-time captioning, Live captioning)
- A service in which a trained stenographer or speech-to-text reporter transcribes spoken language into text in real time, typically displayed on a screen for deaf or hard of hearing participants during…
- CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation, Computer-Aided Real-Time Translation)
- A real-time captioning service in which a trained stenographer uses a specialized keyboard to transcribe spoken language into text as it is spoken, typically achieving accuracy rates above 98%. CART i…
- CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation, Real-Time Captioning, Realtime Captioning)
- A professional service providing instant, verbatim text display of spoken content, typically delivered by trained stenographers using specialized equipment. CART achieves accuracy rates of 98% or high…
- CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation, Real-Time Captioning, Stenography, Real-Time Stenography)
- A real-time captioning service where a trained stenographer uses a specialized keyboard to transcribe speech into text as it is spoken, typically with only a few seconds of delay. CART provides word-f…