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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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BETSIE(also: BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer)
BETSIE (BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer) was an early web accessibility tool developed by the BBC as a CGI Perl script that produced text-only versions of web pages optimized for users of text-to-speech systems. BETSIE handled frames by serializing them,…
Bobby(also: Bobby Worldwide, Watchfire Bobby)
Bobby was one of the earliest and most widely used automated web accessibility testing tools, developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and later acquired by Watchfire (subsequently IBM). Launched in the mid-1990s, Bobby checked web pages against WCAG 1.0…
Breadboard(also: Solderless Breadboard, Protoboard)
A reusable plastic board with a grid of interconnected holes used for building temporary electronic circuits without soldering. Components are inserted into the holes and connected by internal metal strips. Breadboards are essential tools in electronics education and…

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