A dialog box that describes the software product as a whole and the company that created it. The about box typically includes such things as author credits, copyright and trademark information, licens [..]

A key on the keyboard used as a shortcut to issue menu commands (underlined items in Windows menus).

based on a person’s identity or the identity of their group, access privileges define what capabilities or features are available to them when they access a system, what files they can read or write, [..]

assistive technology; tools to help people with disabilities to use computers more effectively. Some general categories of disabilities, and some common aids include:

the principle that in many multi-user situations, someone must be identifiable in order to take responsibility for actions or for decisions. In these cases, anonymity is not always effective or achiev [..]

a set of items or properties that are related and whose effect is cumulative, as with a group of checkboxes. Multiple items can be simultaneously selected, as in a font style menu, where a given lette [..]

Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped, part of the Association of Computing Machinery. A professional society to research and apply computer technology to help people with [..]

when a user enters a relevant acronym (or other abbreviation), acronym expansion automatically spells out the entire phrase represented. While this feature can help in any text entry with commonly rep [..]

a small badge that someone can pin to their clothes which enables a computer system to determine their current location. This can be used in groupware systems to provide basic awareness information ab [..]

a programming language extension that allows functions to be called every time a variable (the active value) is changed.