Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Stenographer(also: Stenocaptioner, Court Reporter)
- A trained professional who produces real-time verbatim transcription of speech, typically using a stenotype machine that maps chorded key combinations to phonetic syllables. In accessibility contexts, stenographers (sometimes called stenocaptioners or CART providers) produce…
- Subtitle(also: Subtitles, Open captions (video), Movie subtitles)
- On-screen text that reproduces the spoken dialogue of a video, most commonly rendered in a "movie subtitle" style (white text with a black outline, one or two lines at the bottom of the frame). Subtitles are closely related to captions but are conventionally distinguished in…
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