Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Visual Assistant(also: Visual Assistant Skill)
- Proposed by Gonzalez Penuela et al. (2026), the 'visual assistant' skill is a set of behaviours that an AI visual interpretation system must exhibit — beyond simply producing accurate captions — to meaningfully support blind and low-vision users in daily life. The nine proposed…
- Visual Information Seeking Mantra(also: Overview First, Shneiderman's Mantra)
- A design principle for information visualisation coined by Ben Shneiderman, summarised as "overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand." The mantra describes an optimal pattern for presenting complex information: start with a broad overview so users can orient…
- Visual substitution(also: Sensory substitution, Vision substitution)
- Visual substitution is a design strategy in assistive technology that replaces visual information with output in another sensory modality, such as audio descriptions, haptic feedback, or tactile representations. It contrasts with visual enhancement, which amplifies or augments…
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