Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Telecommunications Accessibility(also: Telecom Accessibility)
- The design and provision of telephone, mobile, internet, and other communication services and devices so that they are usable by people with disabilities. Telecommunications accessibility encompasses a wide range of accommodations: text telephone (TTY/TDD) services and relay…
- Telecommunications Device for the Deaf(also: TDD, TTY, Text Telephone)
- A specialized device that enables text-based telephone communication for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. TDDs transmit typed text over telephone lines using acoustic coupling or direct connection, requiring compatible devices at both ends of the conversation. While TDDs…
- Teletext(also: Ceefax, Oracle)
- A text-based information service broadcast within the television signal that allowed viewers to access pages of text and simple graphics using their TV remote control. Originating in the UK with the BBC's Ceefax service in 1974, teletext provided news, weather, sports results,…
- Text Messaging(also: SMS, Short Message Service, Texting)
- Text messaging is the exchange of short written messages between mobile devices over a cellular or data network, most commonly using the SMS (Short Message Service) or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) standards, or modern over-the-top messaging apps. Text messaging has been a…
- Transcript(also: Text Transcript, Video Transcript, Audio Transcript)
- A written document containing the complete text of spoken content from a video or audio recording, presented separately from the media rather than synchronized with it. Unlike captions, which appear on-screen in real time as speech occurs, transcripts provide all text at once,…
- Transliteration(also: Sign Language Transliteration)
- The word-by-word conversion of text from one system into another — for example, rendering a name in one script using the characters of another. In sign-language accessibility the term has a specific meaning: producing a signed form of spoken or written English by substituting a…
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