Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Indian Language Accessibility(also: Indic Language Accessibility)
- The set of challenges and solutions involved in making digital technology accessible to people with disabilities who use Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and others. Indian languages use complex scripts with features like consonant conjuncts…
- Infrastructural precarity(also: Digital infrastructure barriers)
- The condition of unreliable, inconsistent, or inadequate technological infrastructure that shapes and constrains how people — particularly disabled people and those in the Global South — can access and use digital technologies. Infrastructural precarity encompasses unreliable…
- Interactive Voice Response(also: IVR, Voice Response System)
- A telephony technology that allows users to interact with automated systems using voice commands or keypad input. IVR systems are particularly valuable for accessibility in low-income settings because they work with any phone (including basic feature phones), require no internet…
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