Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
19 results found in collaboration.
- Ability-Diverse Collaboration (Cross-Ability Collaboration, Mixed-Ability Collaboration)
- A framework for understanding collaborative interactions between individuals with different abilities, where participants strategically combine and share their capabilities to achieve shared outcomes.…
- Annotation (Web Annotation, Content Annotation)
- The practice of adding supplementary information, notes, or metadata to existing digital content, typically without modifying the original source. In accessibility, annotation is used to add alternati…
- Code Review (Peer Code Review)
- A software quality assurance practice in which one or more developers systematically examine source code written by a colleague, looking for bugs, design issues, readability problems, and adherence to…
- Code Walkthrough
- A form of peer review in which a developer leads colleagues through a segment of code, explaining its logic, structure, and design decisions line by line. Unlike pair programming where both developers…
- Collaboration Awareness (Workspace awareness, Collaborator awareness)
- The ongoing, up-to-the-moment understanding of what collaborators are doing, where they are working, and what has recently changed in a shared workspace. In sighted collaboration, awareness is typical…
- Collaborative Accessibility (Accessible Collaboration)
- Design approaches that ensure collaborative activities and shared workspaces are accessible to people with disabilities. Collaborative accessibility focuses on enabling meaningful participation in gro…
- Collaborative Editing (Collaborative Authoring, Co-Editing)
- The practice of multiple users simultaneously or sequentially creating and modifying shared documents or content. In accessibility contexts, collaborative editing poses particular challenges when part…
- Collaborative Ideation (Group brainstorming, Co-ideation)
- The joint process by which a group generates, refines, clusters, and converges on ideas, typically alternating between divergent and convergent thinking. Collaborative ideation is a cornerstone of des…
- Common Ground (Shared Understanding, Mutual Knowledge)
- The mutual knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions shared between people communicating or collaborating. In accessibility and inclusive design, establishing common ground is essential for effective collab…
- Cross-Ability Collaboration (Mixed-Ability Collaboration, Cross-Disability Collaboration)
- Collaboration between people with different abilities, typically involving a person with a disability working alongside someone without that disability. In accessibility research, cross-ability collab…
- Cursor Tethering (Cursor Sync, Cursor Following)
- A collaborative editing feature that automatically synchronizes one user's cursor position to match another user's cursor location in a shared document or code file. Unlike visual Follow mode (which s…
- Digital Whiteboard (Online whiteboard, Virtual whiteboard, Collaborative whiteboard)
- A web- or app-based collaborative canvas (e.g., Miro, FigJam, Mural, Google Jamboard) that lets multiple users co-create content on an effectively boundless surface using sticky notes, sketches, shape…
- Forking (Content Forking, Branching)
- A collaborative mechanism borrowed from software version control where a user creates a copy of an existing work to modify independently while preserving the original. In audio description authoring, …
- Interdependent Accessibility (Interdependence Framework, Access Interdependence)
- A framework for understanding accessibility as a collective, co-created responsibility rather than an individual accommodation. Interdependent accessibility recognizes that access is produced through …
- Mixed-Ability Collaboration (Cross-Ability Collaboration, Mixed-Ability Teamwork)
- Collaborative work involving people with different abilities, such as sighted and blind team members working together on shared tasks. Mixed-ability collaboration requires tools and practices that acc…
- Mixed-Ability Team (Mixed-Ability Group, Mixed-Abilities Team)
- A team or group composed of people with a variety of abilities, including disabled and non-disabled members who may have different sensory, motor, cognitive, or other access needs. Mixed-ability teams…
- Pair Programming (Paired Programming, PP)
- A software development practice where two programmers work together at one workstation, with one writing code (the "driver") and the other reviewing each line as it is typed (the "navigator" or "obser…
- Virtual Collaboration (remote collaboration, virtual teamwork)
- Working together across distance using digital tools—synchronous meetings on platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet, and asynchronous channels like shared documents, Slack, and issue tra…
- Workspace Awareness (Collaborator Awareness, Shared Workspace Awareness)
- The up-to-the-moment understanding of another person's interactions within a shared workspace, including their location, actions, and intentions. In collaborative software development, workspace aware…