Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Keratoconus
- A progressive eye condition in which the normally round cornea thins and bulges into a cone-like shape, causing irregular astigmatism and significant visual distortion that cannot be fully corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses. Keratoconus typically begins in…
- Kurzweil Reading Machine(also: KRM, Kurzweil Reader)
- A pioneering reading device for blind people invented by Ray Kurzweil in 1976, combining optical character recognition (OCR) with text-to-speech synthesis to read printed text aloud. The original device was as large as a stove and produced mechanical-sounding speech, but it…
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