Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in safety.
- AI Hallucination (Model Hallucination, Confabulation)
- The phenomenon where an AI model generates confident, plausible-sounding responses that are factually incorrect, fabricated, or not grounded in the actual input data. In accessibility contexts, AI hal…
- Alarm Fatigue (Alert Fatigue, Notification Fatigue)
- A phenomenon in which an individual becomes desensitised to alarms, alerts, or notifications due to their excessive frequency, repetitive nature, or lack of meaningful context, leading the person to i…
- Embodied Harassment
- Harassment in virtual reality environments that targets a user's avatar body or physical representation, such as invading personal space, mimicking movements, or physically interacting with avatar fea…
- Environmental Awareness (Situational Awareness, Environmental Sound Awareness)
- The perception and understanding of what is happening in one's physical surroundings, particularly through auditory cues. For Deaf and hard of hearing individuals, environmental awareness is often red…
- Social Distancing (Physical Distancing)
- The practice of maintaining a minimum physical distance from other people to reduce the transmission of infectious diseases, widely adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic with recommended distances of a…