Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
42 results found in AI.
- AI Companion (Chatbot Companion, AI Companionship)
- An AI companion is an artificial-intelligence system - typically a text, voice or avatar-based chatbot built on a large language model - explicitly designed to offer users a sense of social presence, …
- AI Hiring Interview (Automated Video Interview, AVI, Asynchronous Video Interview, AI Video Interview)
- An asynchronous job-interview process in which candidates record video responses to pre-recorded or text-based questions on a platform that uses artificial intelligence to analyse facial expressions, …
- AI-Generated Speech (Synthetic Speech, AI Speech)
- Speech audio produced by artificial intelligence systems — typically neural text-to-speech or voice cloning models — rather than recorded from a human speaker. Deaf and hard-of-hearing content creator…
- AI-Mediated Dialogue
- A paradigm in which a large language model (or similar conversational agent) stands between a user and a task, simulated social situation, or another user — either producing the conversational partner…
- Algorithmic Decision-Making (ADM, Automated decision-making)
- The use of software systems — from rule-based logic to machine learning models — to make or substantially inform decisions that affect individuals, such as eligibility for benefits, credit, housing, o…
- Automated Decision Making (ADM, Automated Decision System, ADS)
- The use of software, statistical models, or AI to make or substantially inform decisions about people — eligibility for loans, jobs, benefits, housing, healthcare, or parole — with limited or no human…
- Automated Decision-Making (ADM, Algorithmic Decision-Making)
- The process of making decisions about individuals using automated means, typically involving AI or algorithmic systems, with limited or no human intervention. Under the GDPR, "solely automated" decisi…
- Co-Creative (Co-Creativity, Co-Creative AI)
- A framing of human-AI collaboration in which the AI acts as a creative partner rather than a tool or a replacement — contributing ideas, drafts, or alternatives that the human writer, artist, or desig…
- Computer-Using Agent (CUA)
- An AI agent, typically built on a Large Multimodal Model, that perceives a computer's graphical user interface through screenshots, reasons about on-screen context, and directly manipulates the interf…
- Context Engineering (Context management)
- The practice, in LLM-based systems, of deliberately selecting, structuring, and injecting the information an AI model sees on each call — beyond just the user's latest message — so that outputs are gr…
- DALL-E (DALL-E 2, DALL-E 3, DALLE)
- A family of text-to-image generative AI models developed by OpenAI that produces images from natural-language prompts. DALL-E models are widely used by content creators, including people with disabili…
- Data Annotation (Data labeling, AI labeling)
- The process of attaching labels, transcriptions, bounding boxes, or other structured metadata to raw data so that it can be used to train, evaluate, or benchmark machine-learning models. Annotation is…
- Dataset Collection (Data Collection Protocol)
- The process of gathering, curating, and documenting data used to train, evaluate, or benchmark machine learning systems. In accessibility contexts, dataset collection decisions — who contributes, what…
- ElevenLabs
- A commercial AI voice platform that generates realistic synthetic speech and voice clones from text. ElevenLabs is used in accessibility contexts for producing narrated video voiceovers, audiobook-sty…
- Emulated Empathy
- Emulated empathy is the design strategy, central to AI companion systems, of producing interactional cues - attentive language, affective mirroring, memory of previously shared information - that simu…
- Federated Learning (FL)
- A machine-learning approach in which a shared model is trained across many user devices without the raw training data ever leaving those devices: each device computes updates locally and sends only mo…
- Few-Shot Object Recognition (Few-Shot Recognition)
- A machine learning approach in which a model learns to identify a novel object from only a handful of labelled examples (commonly one to ten) rather than the hundreds or thousands typical of conventio…
- Fine-tuning (Model Fine-tuning, Fine-tune, Supervised Fine-tuning, SFT)
- A machine-learning technique that adapts a pre-trained foundation model - typically a large language model or vision model - to a specific task, domain, or individual user by continuing training on a …
- Griefbot (Deadbot)
- A griefbot (sometimes 'deadbot') is an AI chatbot trained on the written, voice or video communications of a deceased person, intended to let bereaved loved ones continue a simulated dialogue with the…
- Ground Truth (Gold standard, Reference labels)
- In machine learning, the labels treated as authoritative when training or evaluating a model - typically produced by human annotators or expert consensus and assumed to represent the 'correct' answer.…