Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Error correction strategy (Text correction, Input error recovery)
- The methods and behaviours users employ to detect and fix errors during text input, including backspace deletion, cursor repositioning, autocorrect, and retyping. For blind and visually impaired users…
- Error-spread modelling (Error propagation modelling, Error radiation)
- An approach to evaluating the impact of speech recognition errors that accounts for how a single misrecognized word degrades comprehension of its neighbouring words, not just the word itself. For exam…
- Errorless Learning (Errorless Teaching, Error-Free Learning)
- Errorless learning is a teaching methodology that structures tasks so that learners are guided toward correct responses and prevented from making mistakes during the learning process. In accessible te…
- Escapism
- The use of entertainment, fantasy, or immersive experiences to temporarily disconnect from real-world concerns, limitations, or stressors. In VR accessibility research, escapism is a significant motiv…
- Esports (Competitive Gaming, Electronic Sports, E-Sports)
- Organised, competitive video-game play — typically involving tournaments, teams, audiences, and professional players. Esports has grown into a major global industry and a site of accessibility researc…
- Essential Tremor (ET, Benign Essential Tremor)
- Essential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders, characterized by involuntary, rhythmic shaking that typically affects the hands and arms but can also involve the head, voice, and other …
- Ethic of Care (Care Ethics, Feminist Ethics of Care)
- A moral and methodological framework, rooted in feminist philosophy, that centers relationships, responsibility, and responsiveness to the needs of others rather than abstract principles or transactio…
- Ethics Washing (Ethics-Washing)
- The practice of creating the illusion of high ethical standards through superficial transparency efforts, ethics committees, or principles documentation while actual practices do not reflect these sta…
- Ethnographic Study (Ethnography, Ethnographic Research)
- A qualitative research methodology originating in anthropology that involves prolonged, immersive observation of people in their natural environments to understand their behaviours, practices, and soc…
- Ethnography (Ethnographic Research, Ethnographic Methods)
- A qualitative research methodology originating in anthropology that involves observing people in their natural environments to understand their behaviours, practices, and social interactions in contex…
- Ethnomethodology
- A sociological approach, founded by Harold Garfinkel, that studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of and produce social order in interaction - the implicit rules and shared practices th…
- European Accessibility Act (EAA, Directive 2019/882)
- A European Union directive adopted in 2019 that establishes common accessibility requirements for key products and services across EU member states. The EAA covers computers, smartphones, ATMs, e-comm…
- Evaluation Reliability (Inter-rater Reliability, Evaluator Agreement)
- The extent to which independent accessibility evaluations of the same content produce consistent results. High reliability means that different evaluators using the same method will identify similar s…
- Evaluator Effect
- The evaluator effect refers to the phenomenon where different accessibility evaluators identify different sets of problems when assessing the same website, leading to variability in evaluation results…
- Evaluator Effect
- The phenomenon in accessibility and usability evaluation where different evaluators examining the same interface detect different sets of problems and may reach different conclusions about the same is…
- Event-Related Potential (ERP)
- An event-related potential (ERP) is a measured brain response that is the direct result of a specific sensory, cognitive, or motor event. ERPs are extracted from electroencephalography (EEG) recording…
- Evocation (Word Association Strength, Semantic Evocation)
- A measure of how strongly one word brings another word to mind, reflecting the associative connections between concepts in human semantic memory. Unlike formal semantic relationships such as synonymy …
- Exam Accommodation (Test Accommodation, Assessment Accommodation)
- Modifications to examination conditions that enable students with disabilities to demonstrate their knowledge and abilities on an equal basis. Exam accommodations for students with vision impairments …
- Execution Gap (Gulf of Execution)
- From Don Norman's model of human-computer interaction, the distance between a user's goals and the physical actions required to achieve them using a given system. A system with a wide execution gap fo…
- Executive Dysfunction (Executive Function Deficit, EF Impairment)
- A disruption in the efficiency of executive functions that affects a person's ability to plan, organize, initiate tasks, manage time, make decisions, and regulate behavior. Executive dysfunction is a …