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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Video Accessibility(also: Accessible Video)
The practice of making video content usable by people with diverse abilities, including providing captions for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, audio descriptions for blind viewers, transcripts, appropriate pacing, clear visual design, and chapter markers for navigation. For…
Video Chapters(also: Chapter Markers, Video Segments, Timestamps)
Navigational markers within a video that divide content into labeled sections, allowing viewers to jump directly to specific topics or segments. Video chapters function like a table of contents for video content. For viewers with ADHD, chapters are particularly valuable because…
Video Customization(also: Video Personalization, Adaptive Video)
The ability for viewers to modify the visual and auditory presentation of video content to suit their individual needs and preferences. Video customization for accessibility can include adjusting layout (removing or emphasizing visual elements), modifying backgrounds, changing…
Video Processing(also: Video Manipulation, Video Editing Pipeline)
The computational techniques used to analyze, modify, and transform video content, including operations like segmentation, object removal, background replacement, audio separation, caption generation, and visual effects. In accessibility contexts, video processing enables…
Video Segmentation(also: Scene Segmentation, Video Scene Detection)
The process of dividing a video into meaningful segments or scenes based on visual changes, content shifts, or thematic transitions. Video segmentation enables granular customization and navigation, allowing viewers to apply different settings to different parts of a video or…
Video Summarization(also: Video Summary, Video Condensation)
The process of creating a shortened version of a video that captures its key content, either through extractive methods (selecting key segments) or abstractive methods (generating new condensed content). Video summarization is an emerging accessibility tool that can make…
Viewability(also: Video Viewability)
A subjective measure of how watchable and consumable a video is for a particular viewer, encompassing factors like ability to focus on content, level of distraction, information comprehension, and overall comfort with the viewing experience. In ADHD accessibility research,…

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