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Glossary

Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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PC-Talker(also: PCTalker)
A Windows screen reader developed by the Japanese company KGS Corporation, widely used by blind and low-vision users in Japan. PC-Talker provides speech output for Windows applications and the web and integrates with the companion Net Reader Neo browser tailored to…
Page Fragmentation(also: Visual Fragmentation, Content Fragmentation)
A web accessibility problem where different types of content on a web page (news articles, advertisements, navigation menus, related links) are visually grouped using colours, spacing, images, and layout but lack structural markup that would allow non-visual users to identify…
Page Linearization(also: Content Linearization, DOM Linearization, Source Order)
The process by which screen readers and other assistive technologies present web page content as a sequential, one-dimensional stream of text, typically following the order of elements in the HTML source code. Since web pages are designed as two-dimensional visual layouts where…
Picture Smart AI(also: JAWS Picture Smart AI)
Picture Smart AI is a feature of the JAWS screen reader (Freedom Scientific/Vispero) that uses multimodal AI models to describe images, charts, and on-screen content on demand. It can describe a photo, explain a chart, read text embedded in an image, or answer follow-up…
Probing(also: Link Probing, Exploratory Browsing)
Probing is a browsing behavior where a user follows a link to see where it leads and then immediately returns to the previous page. It is commonly observed among blind and screen reader users as a coping strategy when the link text or surrounding context does not provide enough…

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