Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Gallaudet University
- A federally chartered private university in Washington, D.C., and the only university in the world designed specifically for deaf and hard of hearing students, with all programs and services tailored to their needs. Founded in 1864 and named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a…
- Graphical User Interface(also: GUI, WIMP Interface)
- A visual interface paradigm based on windows, icons, menus, and pointer (WIMP) interaction, which became dominant in personal computing from the late 1980s onward. GUIs represented a major accessibility challenge when they replaced text-based command lines: screen readers…
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