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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Lingraphica
A commercially available computerized visual communication system designed to help people with aphasia communicate through icon-based sentence construction. Lingraphica provides a vocabulary of purpose-designed icons that users can arrange to form phrases and sentences, with the…
Lombard Effect(also: Lombard Reflex, Lombard Response)
The involuntary tendency of speakers to increase the intensity, duration, and fundamental frequency of their speech when communicating in noisy environments. Named after French otolaryngologist Étienne Lombard who first described the phenomenon in 1911, the effect involves…

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