Glossary of Terms:

The purpose of this glossary:

This page is created to serve those of you visitors who are not so technically inclined. Its aim is to demystify all the jargon that is mentioned throughout this busy (and probably cluttered) website!

A quick key to get you started

Each of the entries below are formatted in the following way:

  1. Term: the name of the service or device being discussed.
  2. Example: Term: BrailleNote
  3. Definition: the explanation of what the product does and/or what the service offers!
  4. Example: (definition of the term above): an innovative personal productivity system from HumanWare.
  5. New in 2026: a learn more link will be added to learn more about a product or specific service. This feature is a work in progress and may take time to complete. Stay tuned for updates!

Tech words:

Blindeness Notetakers:

Term: BrailleNote.

Explanation/definition: A personal digital productivity system from HumanWare.

BrailleNote product timeline to the best of my knowledge:

The following list is the order of the BrailleNote line of products by release date to the best of my knowledge:

Note: this lit was done off the top of my head and some of the years might be a little off. To my knowledge, though, these were/are the approximate years of release.

Apple Products explained:

The terms below refer to Apple products:

Apple Accessibility terms:

VoiceOver:

The screen reader that is built into apple products (iOS, macOS, tvOS, WatchOS, etc).

*OS: "operating system" (above)

Digital talking book (DTB) players:

Victor Reader Stream:

Digital talking book player from HumanWare.

Allows for easy transfer of files (such as books, music, podcasts) from your computer to its removable sd (secure digital) card.