Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
10 results found in Crowdsourcing.
- Accessibility Commons (AC Repository, AC Metadata Repository)
- A shared metadata repository and schema proposed in 2008 by IBM, the University of Washington, Stony Brook University, and the University of Manchester to let accessibility-remediation research projec…
- Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT, MTurk, Mechanical Turk)
- A crowdsourcing marketplace operated by Amazon that enables individuals and businesses to distribute tasks (called Human Intelligence Tasks or HITs) to a distributed workforce who complete them remote…
- Citizen Science (Community Science, Participatory Science)
- Citizen science is a research approach that engages non-expert members of the public in collecting, processing, or analyzing scientific data, often through purpose-built interactive tools and platform…
- Digital Labor (Digital Labour, Online Labor)
- Work performed through digital platforms and online systems, including microtask crowdwork, gig economy jobs, and remote freelancing. Digital labor raises important accessibility considerations becaus…
- ESP Game (Extra Sensory Perception Game)
- A human computation game, created by Luis von Ahn, in which two randomly paired online players are shown the same image and independently type words to describe it, earning points when their labels ma…
- Human Computation (Crowdsourced Computing)
- A computational approach that harnesses human intelligence to perform tasks that computers cannot easily accomplish alone. In accessibility contexts, human computation powers services like remote sigh…
- Human Intelligence Task (HIT)
- A unit of work on a crowdsourcing platform, particularly Amazon Mechanical Turk, that requires human judgment to complete. HITs typically involve tasks that are difficult for computers but straightfor…
- Image Obfuscation (Image Masking, Visual Privacy Protection)
- Techniques applied to images to obscure or remove sensitive visual information before sharing or processing, such as blurring, pixelation, edge filtering, or masking regions of an image. In accessibil…
- Micro-task (Microtask, HIT, Human Intelligence Task)
- A small, self-contained unit of work that can be completed independently, typically in seconds to minutes, often distributed through crowdsourcing platforms. In accessibility contexts, micro-tasks suc…
- Virtual Auditing (Remote Auditing, Virtual Accessibility Audit)
- Virtual auditing is a method of assessing the accessibility of physical environments by remotely examining street-level imagery, such as Google Street View, rather than conducting in-person inspection…