Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Situational Visual Impairment(also: SVI, Situational Visual Impairments)
- A temporary reduction in a person's effective vision or reading performance caused by the environment or context rather than by a medical condition. Common examples include trying to read a phone screen in bright sunlight, while walking or on a moving vehicle, in low light, or…
- Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities(also: SIIDs, Situationally Induced Impairments and Disabilities, Situation-Induced Disabilities)
- An accessibility framework, introduced by Sears et al., that describes how everyday environments and tasks can temporarily impose the same kinds of barriers on non-disabled users that permanent impairments create for disabled users. Examples include reading a phone in bright sun…
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