• Assistive technology - a term for a range of equipment, devices, and software and that is used to increase, maintain or improve someone's functional capability. This includes screen readers, braille displays, switch devices, joy-sticks, eye-tracking, scanners, magnifiers and voice control.
• Cue - an indicator or affordance that informs the user that they can and should interact in a particular way.
• Dynamic content - content that changes and updates based on user interactions, timing, or other parameters.
• Embedded media - self-contained external content that is embedded and included within a page or screen, such as a video player or game.
• Focus - indicates the component of a user interface (UI) currently selected to receive input.
• Interactive media - content that requires and responds to active participation, such as a game, quiz or widget.
• Narrative - the editorial story within interactive content, such as games, which does not include incidental noises or control buttons.
• Platform - the combination of hardware device, operating system and software being used to view content.
• Screen reader - software, sometimes native to a device, that interprets what is displayed on a screen and re-presents it to the user via text-to-speech, sound icons, or a Braille device; helpful for vision impaired or cognitively impaired users.
• Switch device - custom control hardware combined with software that interprets input as either keyboard or mouse controls; necessary for users with complex motor impairments.

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