Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Educational Video(also: Instructional Video, Video Lecture)
- Video content created to teach - including talking-head lectures, screencasts, animations, hand-drawn (Khan-style) explanations, recorded classroom sessions, programming/coding demonstrations, interviews, and slide-based presentations. Accessibility of educational video depends…
- Embedded Description(also: Inline Description, Integrated Description)
- A technique for making presentation content accessible where the speaker verbally describes relevant visual information on slides — including text, images, graphics, and other visual aids — as part of their narration during the presentation itself. Unlike audio descriptions…
- Emotional Engagement(also: Affective Engagement)
- The degree to which a user connects emotionally with content, characters, and narrative, experiencing feelings such as excitement, tension, empathy, humor, or sadness in response to the media. In accessibility research on audio-described webtoons, emotional engagement is a…
- Extended Audio Description(also: Extended AD, Paused Audio Description)
- A form of audio description in which the video is temporarily paused to allow time for a longer, more detailed description of visual content before resuming playback. Extended AD is used when gaps between dialogue are too short to convey all essential visual information through…
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