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NOMENCLATUREABWACAVIGNOMEAssociation <strong>for</strong> the Blind of Western AustraliaCisco Access <strong>for</strong> the Vision-ImpairedGNU Object Model Environment; it is a free desktop environment <strong>for</strong>UNIX and UNIX-like operating systemsGNUGNU's not UNIX; refers generally to software distributed under GPL(Mcarty, 1999)GPLGNU Public License. It provides <strong>for</strong> free access to software publishedunder its terms. Users are allowed to copy, modify, and redistributeGPL software (Mcarty, 1999)GTKGUITCP/IPGIMP Tool Kit. It is a multi-plat<strong>for</strong>m toolkit <strong>for</strong> creating GUI.Graphical User InterfacesTransmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol; a standard methodof sending data packets across a computer network, focused on therouting and connection issues (Mcarty, 1999)TTSText To Speech; it is a type of speech synthesis application that isused to create a spoken sound version of the text in a computerdocument, such as a help file or a web page. TTL is often used withvoice recognition programs (Sticha, n.d)WidgetsA data structure that normally includes in<strong>for</strong>mation about a userinterfacecomponent (like a button or an edit box) and has pointers tothe code needed to make the component work (USGS, 2004)iii
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