Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Transliteration(also: Sign Language Transliteration)
- The word-by-word conversion of text from one system into another — for example, rendering a name in one script using the characters of another. In sign-language accessibility the term has a specific meaning: producing a signed form of spoken or written English by substituting a…
- Two-Handed Alphabet(also: Two-Handed Manual Alphabet, Two-Handed Fingerspelling)
- A manual alphabet in which most letters are formed using both hands, typically with one hand acting as a base and the other as an articulator. Two-handed alphabets are used in Auslan, British Sign Language, and New Zealand Sign Language (the BANZSL family), in contrast to the…
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