Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Sighted Assistant(also: Sighted Guide, Visual Interpreter)
- A sighted person who provides support to blind or low vision participants during design workshops, research activities, or other collaborative tasks. In accessible design contexts, sighted assistants help with tasks like locating materials, reading printed information,…
- Situated Play Design(also: SPD)
- Situated Play Design is a design approach developed by Altarriba Bertran and colleagues that treats play as something emergent from a specific social, physical, and cultural setting rather than something to be engineered into a generic product. It combines ethnographic…
- Speculative Design(also: Design Fiction, Critical Design)
- A design approach that uses conceptual proposals and provocative artifacts to explore possible futures, challenge assumptions, and stimulate debate rather than solve immediate practical problems. In accessibility research, speculative design is used to imagine alternative…
- Storyboarding(also: Storyboard)
- A visual narrative technique, adapted from film, in which a sequence of sketched panels depicts how a user will interact with a product, service, or environment over time. Storyboards make abstract scenarios concrete and shareable, helping teams and co-designers discuss context,…
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