Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Early Intervention(also: EI, Early Childhood Intervention)
- Services and support provided to infants and young children (typically birth to age 3 or 5) with developmental delays or disabilities, and their families. For DHH children, early intervention is critical and includes sign language instruction, speech-language therapy,…
- English Literacy(also: Reading Literacy, English Reading Literacy)
- The ability to read, write, and comprehend written English. In the context of deaf and hard-of-hearing accessibility, English literacy is a significant consideration because many DHH individuals — particularly those who are native ASL users — may have lower levels of English…
- Expressive Captions(also: Affective Captions, Emotion Captions, Typographic Captions)
- Captions that go beyond literal word-for-word transcription to convey the prosodic, emotional, or speaker-identity information that traditional captions strip out. Expressive captions may modulate font weight, size, colour, position, or animation to signal loudness, pitch,…
- Eye Gaze(also: Gaze, Gaze Direction, Visual Gaze)
- The direction and focus of a person's eyes during visual attention, used both as a communication signal and as a measurable indicator of cognitive processing. In sign language communication, eye gaze serves critical linguistic functions including marking grammatical…
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