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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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SIGACCESS(also: ACM SIGACCESS, SIGCAPH, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing)
The ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing, the primary professional organization within ACM dedicated to accessibility research. Originally founded as SIGCAPH (Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped) in the 1970s, the group was renamed…
Screen Reader/2(also: IBM Screen Reader/2, SR/2)
Screen Reader/2 was an early screen reader developed by IBM for the OS/2 operating system, first released in the early 1990s. It was one of the pioneering commercial screen readers, providing blind and visually impaired users with text-to-speech and audio output to access…
Standard Human Interface(also: SHI)
A concept within the Pervasive Accessible Technology framework referring to a standardized set of input and output capabilities — including microphones, speakers, touch screens, glidepoint touchpads, kiosks, infrared devices, and video cameras — that serve as the physical point…

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