Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Onomatopoeia
- Words that phonetically imitate or suggest the sound they describe, such as "buzz," "crash," "swoosh," or "sizzle." In captioning, onomatopoeia is one approach to representing non-speech sounds, offering viewers a sense of the acoustic quality of a sound. However, research shows…
- Orthographic Depth(also: Orthographic Transparency, Spelling Transparency)
- A measure of how consistently a written language maps between its spelling (graphemes) and pronunciation (phonemes). Shallow or transparent orthographies like Spanish, Finnish, and Italian have highly consistent letter-to-sound correspondences, while deep or opaque orthographies…
- Orthographic Depth(also: Orthographic Transparency, Spelling Transparency)
- The degree of consistency in the relationship between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) in a writing system. Languages with shallow or transparent orthography — like Finnish, Spanish, and Italian — have highly consistent letter-to-sound mappings, meaning words are…
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