Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Play-by-Play(also: Play-by-play announcing, Play-by-play commentary)
- In sports broadcasting, the moment-to-moment verbal description of on-screen action provided by the main commentator (e.g., who has the puck, who is passing to whom). Because play-by-play describes what sighted viewers can see, it largely duplicates visual information for Deaf…
- Podcast(also: Podcasting)
- An episodic, on-demand audio programme distributed over the internet, typically via RSS or proprietary platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and BBC Sounds. Podcasts are a dominant form of long-form audio media — 92% of UK adults listen to some audio content weekly — but…
- Pop-on Captions(also: Pop-on style, Block captions)
- A captioning display style in which a complete caption appears on screen as a single block, remains visible for a readable duration, and is then replaced in one transition by the next block. Pop-on captions let viewers "glance and grab" an entire sentence at once, which viewer…
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