Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
35 results found in AI accessibility.
- Material Culture
- The physical objects, artefacts, and environments that a community produces, uses, and inhabits, along with the meanings and practices embedded in them. In AI and accessibility research, material cult…
- Microsoft Copilot (Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot in Excel)
- Microsoft Copilot is a family of generative AI assistants integrated into Microsoft 365 applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, as well as GitHub and Windows. In Excel and …
- Momentous Depiction
- A conceptual framework proposed by Niu, Clements, and Kim (2026) for using generative AI to visualize critical moments that convey the insights and meanings of disability in storytelling videos. The f…
- Music GenAI (Generative Music AI, AI Music Generation)
- Generative AI systems that produce musical output — melodies, full songs, instrumental accompaniment, or vocal tracks — from text prompts, seed audio, or structured parameters. Examples include Suno, …
- Perceptual Gap
- A design failure identified by Choudhury (2026) in which an AI system's explanation is delivered through exactly the sensory channel that its user cannot access. For example, a Grad-CAM heat map overl…
- Picture Smart AI (JAWS Picture Smart AI)
- Picture Smart AI is a feature of the JAWS screen reader (Freedom Scientific/Vispero) that uses multimodal AI models to describe images, charts, and on-screen content on demand. It can describe a photo…
- Product Identification (Product Recognition)
- The task of determining what a packaged or unpackaged product is from visual (or other sensory) input, at a level of detail useful to an end user: generic type (soup, cereal, shampoo), brand (Campbell…
- Prompt Contradiction
- A type of large language model failure in which the system disregards explicit instructions or constraints given in the user prompt, producing output that contradicts what was asked. For example, an A…
- Referential Drift
- Referential drift is a failure mode in AI-generated sign language where spatial loci — the established positions in signing space used to refer to people, objects, or locations — shift or are not main…
- Regional Sign Variation (Sign Language Dialect, Regional Sign Dialect)
- Regional sign variation refers to systematic differences in the form of signs across geographic regions within a single sign language, analogous to dialects in spoken languages. Variation arises from …
- Sign Spotting (Sign Detection, Continuous Sign Spotting)
- Sign spotting is the task of automatically locating instances of specific signs within a continuous signing video, as opposed to classifying a pre-segmented isolated sign. It is a building block for s…
- Story Completer
- A design role for generative AI in storytelling, proposed by Niu, Clements, and Kim (2026), in which AI systems complete and enrich stories authored by human creators rather than generating full story…
- Therapeutic Drift
- A phenomenon in AI-mediated support contexts in which users begin to treat an emotionally supportive AI system as a substitute for professional clinical care or meaningful human relationships, rather …
- Visual Assistant (Visual Assistant Skill)
- Proposed by Gonzalez Penuela et al. (2026), the 'visual assistant' skill is a set of behaviours that an AI visual interpretation system must exhibit — beyond simply producing accurate captions — to me…
- Visual Interpretation (AI Visual Interpretation, Visual Interpretation Application)
- The task of translating visual content — a scene, object, document, interface, or image — into a form accessible to a blind or low-vision user, typically spoken or written description, answers to ques…