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…