Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
9 results found in information.
- Authority Building (Credibility Establishment, Trust Building)
- The strategies used by content creators and platforms to establish trustworthiness and expertise, particularly for health-related and disability-related content. Authority building techniques include …
- Collective Quality Control (Community Quality Control, Crowdsourced Quality Assessment)
- The process by which online communities collectively monitor, assess, and improve the quality of shared content through comments, ratings, corrections, and supplementary information. In disability com…
- Content Quality (Information Quality)
- The accuracy, reliability, completeness, and trustworthiness of information presented in digital content. For health-related and disability-related content on social media and video platforms, content…
- Disclaimer (Content Disclaimer, Health Disclaimer)
- A statement accompanying content that clarifies its limitations, purpose, or the credentials of its creator. In health and disability content on social media, disclaimers typically indicate that conte…
- Health Misinformation (Medical Misinformation, Health Disinformation)
- False or misleading health-related information that is spread regardless of intent to deceive. On social media and video platforms, health misinformation about conditions like ADHD can include inaccur…
- Information Foraging (Information Foraging Theory)
- A theoretical framework from cognitive science that models how people search for and navigate to information, drawing an analogy to animal foraging behaviour. Users assess "information scent" — cues l…
- Information Quality (IQ, Data Quality)
- A measure of how well information meets the needs of its consumers, encompassing dimensions such as accuracy, completeness, currency, relevance, and reliability. In accessibility and disability contex…
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
- A quantifiable metric used to evaluate the success of an activity, process, or organization against defined objectives. In dashboards, KPIs are typically displayed as prominent single numbers or summa…
- QR Code (Quick Response Code)
- A two-dimensional barcode that encodes information such as text, URLs, or other data in a square matrix of black and white modules. In accessibility contexts, QR codes serve as a bridge between physic…