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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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BVI(also: Blind and Visually Impaired, BLV, Blind and Low Vision)
A widely used abbreviation in accessibility and HCI research denoting "blind and visually impaired" — the inclusive category that covers people who are totally blind, legally blind, or have any form of low vision. Closely related variants include BLV ("blind and low vision"),…
Binary Search Tree(also: BST)
A node-based binary tree data structure in which each node has at most two children and satisfies the BST property: every value in the left subtree is less than the node's value, and every value in the right subtree is greater. This ordering enables efficient search, insertion,…
Blind(also: Blindness)
A visual impairment severe enough that a person cannot use vision as their primary means of perceiving information, typically defined legally in the United States as best-corrected visual acuity of 20/200 or worse in the better eye, or a visual field of 20 degrees or less.…
Brute-Force Fallback(also: 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 good state. Brute-force fallbacks are particularly common among screen reader…

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