Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Indian Sign Language(also: ISL, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, IPSL)
- The sign language used predominantly by the Deaf community in India. Indian Sign Language has its own distinct grammar and vocabulary that differs substantially from American Sign Language (ASL) and other sign languages. ISL is used by millions of Deaf individuals across India…
- Individual Sign Language Recognition(also: ISLR, Word-Level Sign Recognition, Isolated Sign Recognition)
- A machine learning task focused on recognizing individual signs from a sign language, translating single signs independently without considering surrounding context. Unlike continuous sign language recognition which attempts to interpret flowing signed sentences, ISLR identifies…
- Informed Consent Accessibility(also: Accessible Informed Consent, Accessible Consent Process)
- The practice of making informed consent documents and processes fully accessible to people with disabilities, ensuring they can understand the information being presented and make genuinely informed decisions about participation. For Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals who…
- Interpretive Agency(also: Viewer Agency)
- The capacity of an audience member to form their own independent understanding and emotional response to content, free from imposed interpretations. In the context of media accessibility, interpretive agency is a concern when AI-generated or highly expressive captions may impose…
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