Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Visual Description(also: Visual Content Description)
- The practice of conveying visual information through non-visual means, primarily text or speech. Visual description encompasses various contexts including image descriptions, alternative text, audio description of video, and assessment descriptors for privacy tools. Research in…
- Visual Descriptor(also: Visual Cue, Visual Doneness Indicator)
- A description in instructions or content that relies on visual appearance to convey information, such as "cook until golden brown," "the mixture should be translucent," or "form into patties." Visual descriptors are a significant accessibility barrier for blind and visually…
- Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting(also: VSTF)
- Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting (VSTF) is a content presentation method that formats text based on its syntactic structure, using indentation, line breaks, and visual grouping to align with the grammatical structure of sentences. Research has shown VSTF can improve online…
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