Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- CART(also: Communication Access Real-Time Translation, Real-Time Captioning, 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-for-word transcription of spoken content for deaf and hard of hearing…
- Real-Time Captioning(also: Live Captioning, Live Speech-to-Text)
- The process of converting spoken language to text simultaneously or with minimal delay as the speech occurs. Real-time captioning can be produced by human transcriptionists (CART, C-Print, TypeWell), crowd workers, automatic speech recognition (ASR), or hybrid approaches. Unlike…
- Visual Dispersion(also: Visual Attention Splitting, Gaze Switching)
- The challenge faced by deaf and hard of hearing individuals when they must divide their visual attention between multiple simultaneous information sources, such as a speech-to-text display, presentation slides, a whiteboard, and the speaker. Unlike hearing individuals who can…
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