Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Back-translation(also: Reverse translation)
- A validation technique in cross-linguistic instrument translation where an independently translated version (e.g., ASL video) is translated back into the source language (e.g., English) by someone who did not see the original, then compared for meaning equivalence.…
- Bimodal Bilingualism(also: Bimodal-Bilingual)
- The ability to use two languages that exist in different modalities — typically a signed language (visual-gestural modality) and a spoken/written language (auditory-vocal modality). Unlike unimodal bilinguals who use two spoken languages, bimodal bilinguals can potentially…
- Black ASL(also: Black American Sign Language, BASL)
- A distinct dialect of American Sign Language that developed within the Black Deaf community, shaped by the history of racial segregation in Deaf education in the United States. Black ASL has its own lexical, phonological, and syntactic features that distinguish it from other ASL…
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