Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- ISCII(also: Indian Script Code for Information Interchange)
- A character encoding standard developed by the Government of India for representing Indian language text in digital systems. ISCII uses a single encoding scheme that can represent characters from all major Indian scripts by exploiting their common phonetic structure — each…
- Ideographic Characters(also: Ideographs, Logograms, CJK Characters)
- Ideographic characters are written symbols that represent a word, morpheme, or concept rather than an individual sound, as used in Chinese (Hanzi), Japanese (Kanji), and historically Korean (Hanja). Because a single writing system can include thousands of distinct characters —…
- 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…
- Input Method Editor(also: IME, Input Method)
- A software component that allows users to enter characters and symbols not directly available on their physical keyboard, particularly for languages with large character sets or complex scripts. IMEs are essential for typing in languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and…
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