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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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Image Description App(also: Visual assistance app, AI visual description app)
A smartphone or wearable application that captures an image of the user's surroundings and returns a spoken or textual description of its content, aimed primarily at blind and low-vision users. Early crowdsourced systems such as VizWiz (2010) relied on remote human workers;…

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