Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- A software application that provides comprehensive facilities for programming, typically combining a source code editor, build automation tools, a debugger, and often version control integration in a …
- Intellectual Disability (ID, Intellectual Development Disorder)
- A disability characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and adaptive behavior (everyday social and practical skills), originating durin…
- Intellectual Disability (ID, Cognitive Disability, Learning Disability (UK))
- A disability characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and adaptive behavior (conceptual, social, and practical skills) that originate…
- Intellectual Disability (ID, Learning Disability (UK), Cognitive Disability, Developmental Disability)
- A condition characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and adaptive behavior (conceptual, social, and practical skills) that origi…
- Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disability)
- A group of conditions characterised by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and adaptive behaviour (everyday social and practical skills), wi…
- Intelligent Home System (IHS, Smart Home System, Ambient Assisted Living System)
- A technology-enhanced living environment that uses sensors, actuators, and computing to monitor conditions and provide automated or voice-activated support for daily activities, particularly for older…
- Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA, Virtual Assistant, AI Assistant, Digital Assistant)
- A software agent that uses natural language processing and speech recognition to perform tasks, answer questions, and control devices on behalf of a user. Examples include Amazon Alexa, Google Assista…
- Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS, AI Tutor)
- An AI-powered educational system that provides personalized instruction, feedback, and scaffolding adapted to individual learners' needs, knowledge levels, and learning patterns. Modern intelligent tu…
- Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA, Virtual Assistant, AI Assistant, Conversational Agent)
- A software-based agent that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and speech recognition to understand and respond to human voice or text commands. Intelligent Virtual Assistants …
- Intelligent Wheelchair (Smart Wheelchair, Powered Wheelchair with Navigation Assistance)
- A powered wheelchair augmented with sensors, computing hardware, and software algorithms to provide navigation assistance, collision avoidance, or autonomous driving capabilities. Intelligent wheelcha…
- Intelligent agent (Software agent, Autonomous agent)
- An autonomous computer program or algorithm that acts on behalf of another entity, typically a user. Intelligent agents work to a set of rules that may evolve over time based on experience. In accessi…
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU, Critical Care Unit)
- A specialized hospital department that provides continuous monitoring and life-support treatment for patients with severe or life-threatening conditions. ICU patients frequently experience temporary c…
- Intention Tremor (Cerebellar Tremor, Action Tremor)
- A type of tremor that appears or worsens during voluntary, goal-directed movement — particularly as a limb approaches its target — and is typically absent at rest. Intention tremor is most often cause…
- Intention-Based Description (Intention-Based Graph Description, Purpose-Driven Description)
- An approach to generating accessible descriptions of visual content (particularly graphs and data visualisations) that focuses on communicating what the creator intended to convey rather than exhausti…
- Intentional Sensory Stimulation
- A design approach for technology that deliberately leverages optimal sensory modes — visual, auditory, haptic, or multimodal — to facilitate comprehension and engagement, rather than simply reducing i…
- Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA, Inter-rater agreement, Inter-coder agreement)
- A statistical measure of how consistently two or more human annotators assign the same label to the same data item, widely used in NLP, computer vision, and AI dataset construction as a proxy for labe…
- Inter-Icon Spacing (Icon Spacing, Icon Gap)
- The amount of empty space between icons or interactive targets in a graphical user interface. Inter-icon spacing affects a user's ability to visually distinguish, locate, and accurately select individ…
- Inter-Rater Reliability (Inter-Coder Reliability, Inter-Annotator Agreement, IRR)
- A statistical measure of the degree to which two or more independent raters or coders agree in their assessments or classifications of the same data. In accessibility research, inter-rater reliability…
- Interaction Analysis
- A qualitative research method for studying knowledge and action in interaction with people, objects, and environments — typically through close observation of video or screen recordings, annotating vi…
- Interaction Framing (Narrative Framing, Framing (Interaction Design))
- Interaction framing refers to the way a system positions the user's role and the meaning of their input, independent of the underlying mechanics. The same choice can be framed as completing a task ("s…