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Add assistive technology definition to prevent broken link to ARIA 1.2 (
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<p>While some terms are defined in place, the following definitions are used throughout this document. </p>
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<dt><dfn data-lt="assistive technologies|assistive technology">Assistive Technologies</dfn></dt>
<dd><p>Hardware and/or software that:</p>
<ul>
<li>relies on services provided by a <a>user agent</a> to retrieve and render Web content </li>
<li>works with a user agent or web content itself through the use of APIs, and</li>
<li>provides services beyond those offered by the user agent to facilitate user interaction with web content by people with disabilities</li>
</ul>
<p>This definition may differ from that used in other documents.</p>
<p>Examples of assistive technologies that are important in the context
of this document include the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>screen magnifiers, which are used to enlarge and improve the visual readability of rendered text and images;</li>
<li>screen readers, which are most-often used to convey information through synthesized speech or a refreshable Braille display;</li>
<li>text-to-speech software, which is used to convert text into synthetic speech;</li>
<li>speech recognition software, which is used to allow spoken control and dictation;</li>
<li>alternate input technologies (including head pointers, on-screen keyboards, single switches, and sip/puff devices), which are used to simulate the keyboard;</li>
<li>alternate pointing devices, which are used to simulate mouse pointing and clicking.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><dfn data-export="">Accessible Description</dfn></dt>
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<p>An accessible description provides additional information, related to an interface element, that complements the <a>accessible name</a>. The accessible description might or might not be visually perceivable. </p>
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