Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
13 results found in digital equity.
- 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 …
- Digital Equity (Digital Equality)
- The condition in which all individuals and communities have equal access to, use of, and ability to benefit from digital technologies, regardless of disability, socioeconomic status, geographic locati…
- Digital Exclusion (Digital Marginalization)
- The condition in which individuals or groups are unable to access, use, or benefit from digital technologies due to barriers related to disability, socioeconomic status, age, geography, or digital lit…
- Digital divide (Digital gap, Digital inequality)
- The disparity between individuals, households, or communities in access to, use of, and benefits from information and communication technologies. For older adults and people with disabilities, the dig…
- Disability Divide (Digital Disability Divide)
- The sociotechnical disparity between people with and without disabilities in terms of access to, use of, and benefits from digital technologies. While digitalization has transformed work, education, a…
- False Flagging (Malicious Flagging, Coordinated Flagging)
- False flagging refers to the submission of content reports on social media platforms made in bad faith — that is, flagging posts that do not actually violate platform guidelines in order to suppress, …
- 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…
- Hate Speech
- Hate speech refers to expression that attacks, demeans, or calls for violence or discrimination against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religion, nati…
- Information asymmetry (Information gap, Information lag)
- In accessibility contexts, the unequal access to timely, relevant information experienced by disabled people compared to non-disabled peers, caused by inaccessible formats, platforms, and communicatio…
- Infrastructural precarity (Digital infrastructure barriers)
- The condition of unreliable, inconsistent, or inadequate technological infrastructure that shapes and constrains how people — particularly disabled people and those in the Global South — can access an…
- Platform Governance (Social Media Governance)
- Platform governance refers to the policies, rules, procedures, and technical mechanisms through which digital platforms regulate user behaviour, content, and participation. It encompasses both formal …
- Procedural Fairness (Procedural Justice)
- Procedural fairness (also called procedural justice) refers to the perceived fairness of the processes through which decisions are made, as distinct from the fairness of outcomes. In the context of di…
- Shadowban (Shadow-banning, Stealth Ban, Ghost Ban)
- Shadowbanning refers to the practice of secretly limiting or suppressing the visibility of a user's content or account on a social media platform without notifying the user that any action has been ta…