Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Signed Chinese(also: Manually Coded Chinese, Wenfa Shouyu)
- A manually coded signing system that imposes the grammar and word order of written/spoken Mandarin Chinese onto signs, analogous to Signed Exact English in anglophone contexts. Signed Chinese is commonly used in official Chinese television news interpretation and in deaf…
- Swedish Sign Language(also: SSL, Svenskt teckenspråk)
- The sign language used by the Deaf community in Sweden, recognized as an official minority language since 1981. Like other national sign languages, SSL is a complete natural language with its own grammar distinct from spoken Swedish. It uses manual signs (hand shapes, movements,…
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