Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
13 results found in Employment.
- 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, …
- Algorithmic Hiring (AI Hiring, Hiring AI, AI-Enabled Hiring)
- The use of algorithmic systems — including machine learning and large language models — to source, screen, rank, or select job candidates. Proponents argue algorithmic hiring reduces human bias and sc…
- Automated Employment Decision System (AEDS, AEDT, Automated Employment Decision Tool)
- A software system that screens, evaluates, categorises, recommends, or otherwise makes or facilitates hiring or employment decisions about job candidates or workers. AEDSs span résumé sorters, persona…
- C2C Marketplace (Customer-to-Customer Marketplace, Peer-to-Peer Marketplace)
- An online platform where individual consumers list goods or services for sale to other individual consumers, rather than selling through a business intermediary. Examples include eBay, Etsy, Mercari, …
- 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…
- Digitized Assessment (Digitised Assessment, Digital Hiring Assessment, Computer-Based Employment Assessment)
- A computer-based hiring test used by employers to evaluate candidates' personality, cognition, skills, or judgement. Common formats include personality inventories, gamified cognitive tasks (balloon-i…
- Emotional Intelligence Test (EI Test, I-EQ Test, Emotional Intelligence Assessment)
- A hiring assessment that asks candidates to identify emotions in photographs of faces or to judge appropriate emotional responses in social scenarios. Emotional-intelligence tests are particularly ina…
- Employment Discrimination (Workplace Discrimination, Hiring Discrimination)
- Unjust or unequal treatment of workers or job seekers on the basis of protected characteristics including disability, age, race, gender, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation. In the United…
- Gig Economy (Platform Economy, On-Demand Economy)
- An economic model characterized by short-term, flexible, and freelance work arrangements facilitated through digital platforms, rather than traditional permanent employment. For people with disabiliti…
- Personality Test (Personality Inventory, Personality Assessment)
- A psychometric instrument that attempts to quantify traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion, emotional stability, or risk tolerance. Personality tests were introduced in industry during and aft…
- Sheltered Employment (Sheltered Work, Sheltered Workshop, Protected Employment)
- A model of employment where people with disabilities work in a controlled environment specifically designed to accommodate their needs, typically with lower productivity expectations and specialized s…
- Situational Judgment Test (SJT, Situational Judgement Test)
- A hiring assessment that presents candidates with hypothetical workplace scenarios and asks them to select the "best" and "worst" responses from a predefined multiple-choice list. SJTs assume a single…
- Workplace Accommodation (Reasonable Accommodation, Job Accommodation, Work Adjustment)
- Modifications or adjustments to a job, work environment, or the way work is performed that enable a qualified person with a disability to perform essential job functions and enjoy equal employment opp…