Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
35 results found in AI accessibility.
- AI Content Describer (NVDA AI Content Describer)
- AI Content Describer is an add-on for the NVDA screen reader that uses multimodal AI models to generate descriptions of on-screen visual content — images, controls, icons, charts, and arbitrary screen…
- AI for Accessibility (AI4A, Artificial Intelligence for Accessibility)
- An umbrella framing used by technology companies and researchers for applications of artificial intelligence — including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and generativ…
- AI-Generated Content (AIGC)
- An umbrella term for text, images, audio, video, and other media produced by generative AI systems — especially large language models and diffusion-based text-to-image or text-to-video models — in res…
- Access-Stabilising Support
- A design framing, introduced by Bhuiyan et al. (2026), that positions AI in Deaf education not as an autonomous translator or replacement instructor but as a mediated tool whose role is to preserve vi…
- Accessibility-Oriented Prompting (Accessible Prompting, A11y Prompting)
- A prompt engineering strategy for large language models (LLMs) in which explicit accessibility requirements are included in the prompt when requesting code generation or UI design. Rather than relying…
- Anthropomorphism (Humanization, Anthropomorphization)
- The attribution of human characteristics, emotions, intentions, or behaviors to non-human entities such as technology, animals, or objects. In assistive technology and conversational AI design, anthro…
- Assistive AI (AI for Accessibility, Accessible AI, Accessibility AI)
- Artificial intelligence systems designed specifically to support disabled people in performing tasks, accessing information, or navigating their environments. Examples include object recognition tools…
- Assistive Drone (Assistive UAV, Assistive Quadcopter)
- A small unmanned aerial vehicle configured to assist a person with a disability — most often a blind or low-vision user — with tasks such as locating objects, navigating unfamiliar environments, scann…
- Bixby Vision
- Bixby Vision is a visual-assistance feature in Samsung's Bixby assistant, built into Samsung Galaxy phones, that uses the device camera and AI to describe scenes, read text, identify objects and curre…
- Chain-of-Thought (CoT, Chain of Thought Reasoning, Step-by-Step Reasoning)
- Chain-of-thought is a prompting and model-design technique in which a large language model produces its intermediate reasoning steps before giving a final answer. Modern reasoning models (e.g., OpenAI…
- ChatGPT (GPT, OpenAI ChatGPT)
- ChatGPT is a conversational generative AI assistant developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT family of large language models. Users interact via a text chat interface and, in newer versions, through voic…
- Context Leakage (chat session context bleed)
- A failure mode in conversational AI systems in which information from earlier, unrelated chat sessions or turns influences the current response, producing output that blends contexts — for example, mi…
- Conversational User Interface (CUI, Conversational Interface, Dialogue Interface, CVUI)
- A user interface that enables interaction through natural language conversation, either via voice (spoken dialogue) or text (chat). Conversational user interfaces encompass voice assistants, chatbots,…
- Diffusion Model (Diffusion-based Generator, Denoising Diffusion Model)
- A diffusion model is a class of generative AI that learns to produce images or videos by iteratively denoising a random noise input, reversing a forward process that gradually adds noise to training d…
- Disability-Centered Evaluation (Disability-Centric Evaluation, Disability-First Evaluation)
- An approach to evaluating AI systems, tools, or research artefacts that places disabled people's lived experiences, information needs, and failure contexts at the centre of study design — including wh…
- Find My Things (FMT)
- A Microsoft-developed smartphone app that lets people who are blind or have low vision train a personalized object recognizer by recording short example videos of their own items, then use the trained…
- Image Description App (Visual assistance app, AI visual description app)
- A smartphone or wearable application that captures an image of the user's surroundings and returns a spoken or textual description of its content, aimed primarily at blind and low-vision users. Early …
- LLM Accessibility (AI-Generated Accessibility, Generative AI Accessibility)
- The study and practice of how large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools handle digital accessibility in their outputs, particularly when generating code, user interfaces, or content. Resear…
- LLM Self-Reflection (AI Self-Assessment, Model Self-Evaluation)
- A technique in which a large language model is prompted to evaluate and critique its own output, identifying errors, gaps, or areas for improvement. In the context of accessibility, LLM self-reflectio…
- Low-Resource Sign Language
- A sign language for which standardised corpora, training data, technical infrastructure, and institutional support are limited compared to 'high-resource' sign languages like American Sign Language (A…