Glossary
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;…
- Interpersonal Safety
- Interpersonal safety refers to protection from threats of bodily harm caused by other people, such as assault, harassment, or violence. For people with disabilities, interpersonal safety presents distinct challenges because visual or auditory cues used to assess threats from…
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