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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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Tactile Art(also: Touch Art, Haptic Art)
Pictures, illustrations, sculptures, and multimodal compositions that are created to be accessible through the sense of touch, either crafted intentionally for touch-focused experiences or made accessible through tactile or haptic properties. Tactile art is distinguished from…
Tactile Drawing(also: Tactile Picture Making)
The process of creating raised-line images that can be perceived through touch rather than vision. Tactile drawing can be done by blind or sighted people using methods such as drawing on swell paper with a thermo pen to produce immediately raised lines, using a stylus on plastic…

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