Ch16: Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments

Question 1

Accessibility

Answer 1

The capability of a device to allow use by individuals with disabilities

Question 2

Accessibility

Answer 2

The capability of a device to allow use by individuals with disabilities

Question 3

Alternative Mobility Device

Answer 3

An assistive device intended to assist a person who is blind in orientation and mobility

Question 4

Braille

Answer 4

Raised dots that can be read by touch; a cell of either six or eight dots is used to portray letters and special computer symbols (ex. cursor movement, uppercase and lowercase)

Question 5

Closed-Circuit Television

Answer 5

A video camera and monitor used to enlarge text and other print material; also called video magnifiers

Question 6

Digital Talking Books

Answer 6

Reading material for individuals who are blind; produced on digital media (usually CD-ROM) and can be reproduced and read on a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems

Question 7

Electronic Travel Aid

Answer 7

• Sensory devices that supplement rather than replace the long cane or guide dog
• Designed to provide additional environmental information and to detect those obstacles typically missed by the long cane

Question 8

Graphical User Interface

Answer 8

Characterized by three distinguishing features: (1) a cursor, which is moved around the screen; (2) a graphical menu bar, which appears on the screen; and (3) one or more windows, which provide a menu of choices

Question 9

Internet

Answer 9

Worldwide computer network that connects users globally for electronic mail, file transfer, electronic commerce, and similar functions

Question 10

Magnification Aids

Answer 10

Low-vision aids for reading print material

Question 11

Navigation Aids

Answer 11

Devices that keep track of the user’s current location and heading, find the way around and through a variety of environments, find and follow an optimally safe walking path to the destination, and provide information about the salient features of the environment

Question 12

Optical Aids

Answer 12

Devices that allow individuals with low vision to see print, do work requiring fine detail, or increase the range of their visual fields

Question 13

Optical Character Recognition

Answer 13

A software program that recognizes text within a digital image and exports it to a word processing program, a synthetic speech generator, a braille output, or any other application

Question 14

Orientation and Mobility

Answer 14

The process by which an individual who is blind is able to achieve independent movement in the environment

Question 15

Privacy

Answer 15

Being free from being observed or disturbed by other people

Question 16

Quality

Answer 16

How good or bad something is

Question 17

Reading Aid

Answer 17

A sensory device designed to provide access to print materials for an individual who is blind

Question 18

Refreshable Braille Display

Answer 18

The use of mechanically raised pins to represent braille cells, organized in arrays from 1 to 80 cells

Question 19

Screen Readers

Answer 19

Systems that provide speech synthesis or braille output for blind users

Question 20

Scripts

Answer 20

Application software for assistive devices that is designed for specific types of programs, procedures or applications (e.g., word processing, phone use)

Question 21

Spatial Display

Answer 21

Provides direct spatial information about the directions and distances to environmental locations in a navigation system

Question 22

Universal Access

Answer 22

The design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design

Question 23

User Display

Answer 23

The portion of a device that portrays information for the human user

Question 24

Video Magnifiers

Answer 24

See Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)