Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- SIGACCESS(also: ACM SIGACCESS, SIGCAPH, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing)
- The ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing, the primary professional organization within ACM dedicated to accessibility research. Originally founded as SIGCAPH (Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped) in the 1970s, the group was renamed…
- SLPAT(also: Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies)
- A special interest group jointly supported by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), focused on speech and language technology for assistive applications. SLPAT brings together researchers from…
- Simple View of Reading(also: SVR)
- An influential reading model proposed by Gough and Tunmer that defines reading comprehension as the product of two components: decoding ability (D) and language comprehension (L), expressed as RC = D × L. This model suggests that reading difficulties can stem from problems with…
- Systematic Literature Review(also: SLR, Structured Literature Review)
- A rigorous research methodology that systematically identifies, evaluates, and synthesizes all relevant studies on a particular topic using predefined criteria and transparent processes. Systematic literature reviews in accessibility research help map the state of the field,…
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