Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
192 results found in artificial intelligence.
- AI transparency (Algorithmic transparency, Model transparency)
- The practice of making artificial intelligence systems understandable to users and stakeholders, including how they work, what data they use, and the confidence levels of their outputs. For assistive …
- AI-Assisted Editing (AI-Powered Editing, Intelligent Editing)
- The use of artificial intelligence to support or automate aspects of content editing, such as suggesting improvements, applying changes based on user intent expressed in natural language, or automatic…
- AI-Generated Alt Text (Automated Alt Text, AI Image Descriptions)
- Alternative text for images that is automatically generated by artificial intelligence systems rather than written by humans. AI-generated alt text has become increasingly common on social media platf…
- Ability assumption in AI (Visual ability assumption, Sighted bias in AI)
- The tendency of AI systems to assume users possess typical sensory, cognitive, or physical abilities, leading to inappropriate responses or instructions. In the context of visual AI assistants for bli…
- Accessibility dataset (Disability-inclusive dataset, Accessible benchmark)
- A publicly available research dataset that includes data collected from people with disabilities, enabling algorithm development and benchmarking on representative populations rather than exclusively …
- Active Learning (AL)
- A machine learning paradigm in which the algorithm iteratively selects the most informative unlabeled data points to query a human annotator for labels, enabling effective model training with minimal …
- Advocacy Labor (Accessibility Advocacy Labor, Corrective Labor)
- The unpaid effort that disabled people must expend to correct biased, ableist, or inaccessible technology outputs and advocate for better representations of disability. In the context of generative AI…
- Aesthetic Feedback (Visual Aesthetic Feedback)
- Information provided to a user about the aesthetic qualities of visual content, such as clarity, framing, color balance, mood, lighting, and overall style. For blind creators, aesthetic feedback from …
- Affective Computing (Emotion AI, Emotional AI)
- A field of AI that attempts to detect, interpret, and simulate human emotions using technologies such as facial expression analysis, voice tone detection, physiological sensors, and behavioral pattern…
- Algorithmic Bias (AI Bias, Machine Learning Bias)
- Systematic and unfair discrimination embedded in the outputs of algorithmic systems, arising from biased training data, flawed model design, or unrepresentative development processes. For people with …
- Algorithmic Discrimination (AI Discrimination, Automated Discrimination)
- The systematic disadvantaging of specific groups through the operation of AI-driven systems, whether intentional or emergent. For people with disabilities, algorithmic discrimination occurs across man…
- Algorithmic Harm (AI Harm, Algorithmic Negative Outcome)
- Any difficulty, disadvantage, or injury caused by the use of AI-driven systems, ranging from mere inconvenience to material harm. For people with disabilities, documented algorithmic harms include den…
- Algorithmic Moderation (Automated Moderation, AI Content Moderation)
- Algorithmic moderation refers to the use of automated systems, including machine learning models and rule-based filters, to identify, flag, rank, or remove content on digital platforms without direct …
- Algorithmic accountability (AI accountability)
- The principle that organizations and individuals responsible for creating and deploying algorithmic systems should be held responsible for the outcomes and impacts of those systems. In accessibility c…
- Algorithmic bias (AI bias, Machine learning bias, Algorithmic discrimination)
- Systematic and unfair errors in the outputs of automated decision-making systems that disadvantage particular groups of people. For people with disabilities, algorithmic bias arises from underrepresen…
- Anchored Generative Model (Anchored Transformation Model)
- A constrained AI generation approach where content creators define upper and lower bounds (anchors) of acceptable variation, and a generative model interpolates between these boundaries based on user …
- Atomic Facts (Atomic Claims)
- Self-contained units of information extracted from longer text, each representing a single verifiable claim or observation. In AI reliability research, decomposing model responses into atomic facts en…
- Audio Separation (Source Separation, Audio Unmixing)
- The process of isolating individual audio sources from a mixed audio signal—for example, separating speech from background music, sound effects, and ambient noise. Audio separation enables selective c…
- Auto-Generated Captions (Automatic Captions, AI Captions, Machine-Generated Captions)
- Captions automatically created by speech recognition technology without human review or editing. Video platforms like YouTube and TikTok offer auto-generated captions as a default accessibility featur…
- Automatic Alt Text (AI-generated Alt Text, Auto Alt Text, Machine-generated Alt Text)
- Alternative text for images that is automatically generated by artificial intelligence systems using computer vision and natural language processing. Platforms like Microsoft PowerPoint, Facebook, and…