Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Green Space Accessibility (Outdoor Leisure Accessibility, Park Accessibility)
- The design and adaptation of natural environments such as parks, gardens, forests, and countryside areas to be usable and enjoyable by people with disabilities. Green space accessibility encompasses m…
- Grey Digital Divide (Gray Digital Divide, Age-Related Digital Divide)
- The gap in technology adoption, usage, and digital skills between older adults and younger populations. While older adults may be interested in using technology for communication, health management, a…
- Gricean maxims (Conversational maxims, Cooperative principle)
- A set of principles proposed by philosopher Paul Grice that describe the implicit rules governing cooperative conversation: quantity (be informative but not over-informative), quality (be truthful), r…
- Grid Display (Symbol Grid, Grid-Based AAC)
- A common AAC layout format that presents communication options as symbols, icons, or words arranged in a grid pattern of rows and columns. Grid displays are widely used in speech-generating devices an…
- Grid Navigation (Grid Accessibility, Table Navigation)
- The ability to navigate through grid or table-based layouts using keyboard controls and assistive technologies. Calendar applications commonly use grid layouts to display weeks and months, which prese…
- Grid Recursion (Recursive Grid Navigation, Hierarchical Grid)
- A navigation technique where a grid cell can be further subdivided into a finer sub-grid, allowing users to achieve progressively more precise positioning through successive levels of refinement. For …
- Grid-Based Cursor Control (Grid-Based Navigation, Grid Overlay Navigation)
- A hands-free cursor positioning technique that overlays a numbered grid on the screen, allowing users to select a cell by voice command or other input to recursively zoom into smaller screen regions u…
- Grid-Based Interface (Grid Navigation Interface)
- An interaction paradigm that divides a screen or workspace into a grid of cells, allowing users to navigate by specifying grid coordinates rather than precise pixel positions. Grid-based interfaces ar…
- Grid-Based Navigation (Grid Navigation, Grid Cursor Control)
- A speech-controlled cursor positioning technique that divides the screen into numbered regions, allowing users to select progressively smaller areas by speaking numbers until the cursor reaches the ta…
- Griefbot (Deadbot)
- A griefbot (sometimes 'deadbot') is an AI chatbot trained on the written, voice or video communications of a deceased person, intended to let bereaved loved ones continue a simulated dialogue with the…
- Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS)
- A standardized five-level classification system used to describe the gross motor function of children with cerebral palsy, based on self-initiated movement with emphasis on sitting, walking, and mobil…
- Gross Motor Movement (Gross Motor Skills, Gross Motor Control)
- Large body movements involving the major muscle groups of the arms, legs, and torso, as opposed to fine motor movements that require precise control of small muscles in the fingers and hands. In assis…
- Gross Motor Skills (Large Motor Skills, Gross Motor Function)
- Motor skills involving large muscle groups that enable whole-body movements such as walking, running, jumping, climbing, and maintaining balance and posture. Unlike fine motor skills which involve pre…
- Ground Truth (Gold standard, Reference labels)
- In machine learning, the labels treated as authoritative when training or evaluating a model - typically produced by human annotators or expert consensus and assumed to represent the 'correct' answer.…
- Grounded Theory
- A qualitative research methodology in which theory is systematically generated from data through iterative coding, categorization, and comparison rather than testing a pre-existing hypothesis. In acce…
- Grounding (Grounding Techniques, Grounding Exercises, Self-Regulation)
- A set of therapeutic and coping techniques used to help a person reconnect with the present moment and their physical surroundings during periods of emotional distress, anxiety, or trauma response. Gr…
- Group Narrative (Collaborative Storytelling, Co-Signing Performance)
- A collaborative storytelling activity deeply rooted in Deaf culture and communities where two or more signers jointly perform a story using sign language, often with exaggerated and creative expressio…
- Groupware (Collaborative Software, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Software)
- Software designed to help multiple people coordinate, communicate, and collaborate on shared work. Groupware covers shared calendars and scheduling, document co-authoring, messaging, workflow, and shi…
- Growth mixture model (GMM, Latent class growth model)
- A statistical method that identifies unobserved subpopulations (latent classes) within a dataset based on distinct patterns of change over time. In accessibility research, growth mixture models can re…
- Guardianship (Legal Guardianship, Guardian, Caregiver Guardianship)
- A legal arrangement in which a person (the guardian) is appointed to make decisions on behalf of another person who is deemed unable to make certain decisions independently, often due to intellectual …