Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Audio Augmented Reality(also: Audio AR, Augmented Audio Reality, Audio-Augmented Environment)
- The overlay of digital sound — synthesised speech, music, earcons, or spatialised audio cues — onto a user's perception of their real or virtual environment. Audio augmented reality can be head-worn (via open-ear or bone-conducting headphones) or environmental (via fixed…
- Audio Beacon(also: Auditory Beacon, Sound Beacon)
- A spatial audio cue, typically a repeating tone or beep, attached to a specific location or object to help users with visual impairments navigate toward or identify points of interest in physical or virtual environments. Audio beacons vary in parameters such as pitch, timbre,…
- Audio-Based Virtual Environment(also: Audio Virtual Environment, Sound-Based Virtual World, Auditory Virtual Environment)
- An audio-based virtual environment is a computer-generated interactive space that uses sound — including 3D spatial audio, stereo effects, and environmental audio cues — as the primary channel for conveying information about the virtual world, enabling navigation, orientation,…
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