Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Ghost Cursor(also: Phantom Cursor, Proxy Cursor)
- A visual indicator displayed on screen that shows a potential cursor position, used in speech-based and alternative cursor movement systems. Multiple ghost cursors can be displayed simultaneously, typically aligned in a row or column, allowing users to quickly specify an…
- 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…
- Guided Incremental Search(also: Step-by-Step Search, Faceted Browsing)
- A web navigation pattern in which users are led through a series of small, sequential choices — such as selecting categories, subcategories, and filters — to progressively narrow search results toward a target. While this approach reduces the cognitive demand of each individual…
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