Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
22 results found in accessibility research.
- ASSETS (ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility)
- The premier academic conference on accessible computing, organized by ACM SIGACCESS (Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing). ASSETS began as a research conference planned by SIGCAPH (the pred…
- Adaptive Hypermedia (AH, Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, AHS)
- Interactive systems that build a model of each user's goals, knowledge, preferences, and context, then use this model to automatically adapt the content, presentation, and navigation of hypermedia doc…
- Best-Worst Scaling (BWS, Maximum Difference Scaling, MaxDiff)
- A survey methodology for efficiently collecting ranking judgments from participants over a large set of items. Instead of asking participants to rank all items at once (which becomes cognitively overw…
- Crowdsourcing (Crowd-Sourced Data, Community Reporting)
- A method of collecting data, information, or contributions from a large number of people, typically via the internet, rather than relying on a single authoritative source. In accessibility contexts, c…
- Discriminative Ability (Discriminative ability of a metric, Discriminability)
- In accessibility research methodology, the property of an evaluation metric to reveal statistically significant differences between stimuli that are known to differ along the dimension being measured.…
- Experiential Transcoding
- An approach to web page transcoding that restructures content based on actual user behaviour rather than relying solely on source code analysis or predefined heuristics. By analysing how sighted users…
- Global North (Developed Countries, First World)
- A socioeconomic and political designation referring to countries that are typically wealthier, more economically developed, and generally located in the northern hemisphere — plus Australia and New Ze…
- Hackability
- A methodology and design philosophy for encouraging DIY assistive technology development in which disabled people, allies, and professionals collaboratively hack, adapt, and remix existing objects int…
- Haptic Field of View (Tactile Field of View, Haptic Aperture)
- The limited area that can be perceived through touch at any given moment, analogous to the visual field of view but much more restricted. While vision allows perception of an entire scene simultaneous…
- ICCHP (International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs)
- A biennial research conference on technology for people with disabilities, held in Europe since 1989. ICCHP provides a peer-reviewed academic venue for accessibility research with a strong European pe…
- IncluSet
- A dataset surfacing repository created by researchers at the University of Maryland that catalogs and organizes accessibility datasets — datasets sourced from people with disabilities and older adults…
- Literacy Bias (Literacy bias of a metric)
- In accessibility research methodology, a literacy bias describes the phenomenon where an evaluation metric systematically produces different scores for participants with different reading-literacy lev…
- Multi-Objective Optimization (Many-Objective Optimization, Pareto Optimization)
- A computational approach to finding solutions that simultaneously satisfy multiple, potentially conflicting goals. Unlike single-objective optimization which seeks one best answer, multi-objective opt…
- NIDILRR (NIDRR, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research)
- A U.S. federal agency within the Administration for Community Living that funds disability and rehabilitation research, including accessible technology development. Originally named NIDRR (National In…
- Participant pool (User pool, Research panel, Participant registry)
- A pre-established database of individuals who have expressed willingness to participate in research studies, maintained with demographic information, contact details, and often cognitive or ability as…
- Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA, Qualitative Analysis)
- A research methodology for systematically examining non-numerical data such as interview transcripts, field notes, audio recordings, images, and videos to identify patterns, themes, and meanings. The …
- Quality of Perception (QoP)
- An evaluation framework from the multimedia-accessibility research literature for measuring how well a user can understand and use a media presentation, combining objective comprehension metrics (e.g.…
- Scanpath Trend Analysis (STA)
- A method for analysing multiple eye-tracking scanpaths to identify a single representative trending path that captures the most common viewing patterns across a group of users. STA determines which vi…
- Trace Center (Trace Research and Development Center)
- A leading accessibility research center originally founded at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971, now at the University of Maryland. The Trace Center pioneered foundational work in accessible…
- W4A (International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Web for All)
- An annual research conference focused specifically on web accessibility, held in conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference (WWW/TheWebConf). W4A brings together researchers studying how to make t…