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• affordance

  a situation where an object’s sensory characteristics intui…

• Java

  a cross-platform object-oriented general-purpose programming la…

• keystroke rollover

  the characteristic that in rapid typing a subsequent key will start b…

• assistive technology

  AT or enabling technology; technology used by those with disabiliti…

• ink text

  words entered into a pen-based computer that are saved as electronic…

• scoped search

  a search that applies to only a subset of the entire database, in order…

• questionnaire

  a form that people fill out, used to obtain demographic information a…

• diagnostic evaluation

  (formative evaluation) a usability evaluation specifically desig…