Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in Cognitive accessibility.
- Cognitive Usability
- The extent to which a system, interface, or information resource can be effectively used by people with varying cognitive abilities and processing styles. Cognitive usability goes beyond traditional u…
- Interaction Framing (Narrative Framing, Framing (Interaction Design))
- Interaction framing refers to the way a system positions the user's role and the meaning of their input, independent of the underlying mechanics. The same choice can be framed as completing a task ("s…
- Mental Imagery (Visual Imagery, Mind's Eye Imagery)
- Mental imagery is the experience of perceiving sensory information, most often visual, in the absence of the corresponding external stimulus, such as picturing a familiar face or replaying a remembere…
- Reading Fluency
- The ability to read connected text accurately, at an appropriate pace, and with proper expression - distinct from word-level decoding skill on one side and from reading comprehension on the other. Flu…
- Route Learning (Route Familiarization)
- The process by which a traveler — particularly a blind or low-vision person — acquires a mental representation of a specific path through an environment, including its turns, landmarks, distances, sur…
- Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS, Sensory Processing Differences)
- Sensory Processing Sensitivity refers to differences in how an individual perceives, filters, and responds to sensory input across modalities such as vision, sound, touch, taste, and proprioception. I…
- Social Proof
- A psychological and behavioural phenomenon in which people rely on the choices, ratings, and reviews of others as evidence when making decisions under uncertainty. In digital accessibility contexts, s…
- Speed-Comprehension Trade-off (Speed-Accuracy Trade-off in Reading)
- An empirical pattern in readability research: typographic, layout, and presentation choices that increase reading speed often reduce comprehension accuracy, and vice versa. For example, sans-serif fac…
- Symbol-based AAC (Picture-based AAC, Pictographic AAC, Picture Communication Symbols)
- Symbol-based AAC refers to augmentative and alternative communication systems whose vocabulary is represented by graphic symbols, line drawings, photographs, or pictograms rather than (or alongside) w…
- Understandability (Understandable, Comprehensibility)
- The quality of information or interface elements being cognitively accessible — meaning a user can not only perceive the content but also internalise its meaning and know how to act on it. Understanda…
- Visual Context Switching (Visual Attention Switching, Gaze Switching)
- The act of shifting visual focus between multiple sources of information, such as between a sign language interpreter and a presentation screen, or between captions and a speaker's face. For deaf and …