Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Mean Opinion Score (MOS, MOS Score)
- A standardized measure of perceived audio or video quality, rated on a scale from 1 (bad) to 5 (excellent). In telecommunications research, MOS is commonly used to assess speech quality as experienced…
- Mean Power Frequency (MPF, Mean Frequency)
- Mean power frequency is a single-number summary of a signal's frequency content, computed as the power-spectrum-weighted mean of frequency. In surface-EMG-based accessibility input devices, MPF of eac…
- Means-End Chain (MEC, Means-End Theory)
- A theoretical framework and analytical output from Laddering research that maps how product attributes lead to functional and psychosocial consequences, which in turn connect to personal values. A cha…
- Meares-Irlen Syndrome (Irlen Syndrome, Visual Stress Syndrome, Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome)
- Meares-Irlen Syndrome is a perceptual processing disorder that affects how the brain processes visual information, causing symptoms of visual stress including pattern glare, perceptual distortions, ey…
- Mechanoreceptor (Tactile Receptor, Touch Receptor)
- A sensory receptor in the skin that responds to mechanical pressure or distortion, enabling the sense of touch. Different types of mechanoreceptors detect various tactile qualities: Meissner corpuscle…
- Media Accessibility (Accessible Media)
- The practice of ensuring that media content — including images, videos, audio, GIFs, memes, and other multimedia formats — is perceivable and understandable by people with diverse abilities. Media acc…
- Media Fragments (Media Fragments URI, Media Fragment Identifier)
- Media Fragments is a W3C specification that defines a standard syntax for addressing specific portions of audio and video resources on the web using URI fragment identifiers. It allows users and appli…
- MediaPipe
- An open-source framework by Google for building multimodal machine learning pipelines, commonly used for real-time face, hand, and body tracking. In accessibility applications, MediaPipe Holistic extr…
- Mediated Communication (Proxy Communication, Supported Communication)
- Communication that is facilitated or interpreted through a third party, such as a caregiver, support worker, family member, or communication partner who knows the person well. In research involving pe…
- Mediated Instruction (Mediated Learning, Interpreted Instruction)
- An educational approach where content is delivered to students through an intermediary, such as a sign language interpreter, rather than directly from the instructor. Research shows that while mediate…
- Mediated Social Touch (Remote Touch, Tele-touch, Haptic Telepresence)
- The use of haptic technology to simulate or communicate social touch gestures — such as stroking, squeezing, patting, or hugging — between people who are physically separated. Mediated social touch sy…
- Medical Gaslighting
- The dismissal, minimization, or invalidation of a patient’s reported symptoms or experiences by healthcare providers, often leading patients to doubt their own perceptions. The phenomenon disproportio…
- Medical Maker (Clinician-Maker)
- A healthcare professional who also engages in fabrication and making activities, bridging the gap between clinical expertise and maker culture. Medical makers combine knowledge of patient safety, reha…
- Medical Making (Clinical Making)
- The practice of clinicians — particularly occupational therapists, physical therapists, and physicians — creating custom assistive devices for their patients using digital fabrication tools such as 3D…
- Medical Model of Disability (Individual Model of Disability)
- A framework that views disability as a deficit or pathology within an individual that should be treated, cured, or rehabilitated. Under the medical model, disability is seen as a personal health probl…
- Medical Model of Disability (Medical Model, Deficit Model)
- The medical model of disability is a framework that views disability primarily as a problem located within the individual, a biological deficit or impairment that needs to be fixed, cured, or compensa…
- Medical Model of Disability (medical model, individual model of disability)
- A framework that views disability as a problem located within the individual, caused by disease, injury, or health condition, that requires medical intervention or rehabilitation to "fix" the person. …
- Medical model of disability (Medical model)
- A framework that views disability as a problem residing in the individual, caused by disease, trauma, or health condition, and requiring medical intervention to "fix" the person. In this model, a blin…
- Medicalised Aesthetic (Medical Model Design, Clinical Aesthetic)
- A design approach in assistive technology that prioritises clinical functionality over personal style, resulting in devices that visually signal disability through neutral, institutional-looking form …
- Medicalization (Medical gatekeeping)
- The process by which human conditions and differences are defined, categorized, and treated as medical problems requiring clinical intervention. In disability and AI contexts, medicalization is reinfo…