Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Remote Monitoring (Remote Patient Monitoring, RPM, Remote Care Monitoring)
- Remote monitoring is the collection of health, activity, or environmental data from a person in their own home or community setting and its transmission to carers, clinicians, or family members at a d…
- Remote Sighted Assistance (Remote Visual Assistance, Visual Interpreting, Remote Sighted Guide)
- A service model in which a sighted person provides real-time visual information to a blind or visually impaired person remotely, typically through a smartphone video call. The blind user points their …
- Remote Usability Testing (Remote User Study, Remote User Evaluation)
- Usability testing conducted with participants in their own homes or workplaces rather than in a research lab, typically using video conferencing, screen sharing, or other remote communication tools. R…
- Remote interpreting (Video remote interpreting, VRI, Remote sign language interpreting)
- The provision of sign language interpretation or other communication access services through video technology, where the interpreter is located in a different physical space from the deaf or hard of h…
- Remote sighted assistance (RSA, Visual interpreting service)
- A service connecting blind or visually impaired individuals with sighted helpers through live video calls, enabling real-time visual guidance for everyday tasks. Services like Be My Eyes (volunteer-ba…
- Remote therapy (Teletherapy, Telepractice, Telerehabilitation)
- The delivery of therapeutic interventions — including speech therapy, occupational therapy, and rehabilitation — through technology-mediated communication rather than exclusively in-person sessions. R…
- Renarration (Content Renarration, Web Renarration)
- The process of re-telling, re-presenting, or re-styling existing web content to make it accessible to new audiences who face barriers the original content was not designed to address. Renarration goes…
- Repair Mechanism (Conversational Repair)
- In conversational interface design, a feature that helps the user and the system recover from misrecognition, ambiguity, or misunderstanding — for example, clarification prompts ("Did you mean the [X]…
- Repeat Keys (Key Repeat Delay)
- An operating system accessibility feature that controls how long a key must be held down before it begins to repeat, and how quickly it repeats once started. For users with motor disabilities who unin…
- Repetitive Questioning (Perseverative Questioning)
- A behavioural symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, in which a person repeatedly asks the same question over and over, often within short time intervals. Repetitive questioning can st…
- Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI, Repetitive motion injury, Overuse injury)
- A category of injuries affecting muscles, tendons, and nerves caused by repetitive movements, sustained awkward postures, or overuse of a body part. In the context of accessibility, repetitive strain …
- Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI, Repetitive Strain Injury, Repetitive Motion Injury, Cumulative Trauma Disorder)
- A group of conditions caused by repetitive movements, forceful exertions, or sustained awkward postures over extended periods, resulting in damage to muscles, tendons, nerves, or other soft tissues. I…
- Replika
- Replika is a commercial AI companion app, launched by Luka Inc. in 2017, that offers users a customisable digital avatar designed to 'develop its own personality' through conversational interaction. U…
- Repository Mining (Software Repository Mining, Mining Software Repositories)
- A research methodology that involves extracting and analysing data from software repositories such as version control systems, bug trackers, code-sharing platforms, and Q&A sites like Stack Overflow. …
- Representational Transformation (representation transformation, accessibility transformation)
- Representational transformation is the process of modifying or re-creating a shared information artifact (such as a document, spreadsheet, diagram, or slideshow) to make it accessible to team members …
- Representational harm (Representational bias)
- A category of harm caused by AI systems that perpetuate or amplify negative stereotypes, demeaning portrayals, or erasure of particular social groups, distinct from allocative harms that deny resource…
- Representative Sampling (Representative Page Sampling)
- In web accessibility auditing, the practice of selecting a subset of pages from a website that statistically reflects the full site, so that evaluation findings can be generalised to pages not directl…
- Representative Users (Target Users, Intended Users)
- Study participants who share the relevant characteristics of the population for whom a technology or solution is being designed. In accessibility research, this means including people with the actual …
- Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation, Needs Assessment)
- The process of collecting and documenting the needs, constraints, and expectations of users and stakeholders to inform the design of a technology system or product. In accessibility and assistive tech…
- Requirements engineering (RE, Requirements elicitation)
- Requirements engineering (RE) is the systematic process of identifying, documenting, analysing, and managing the needs and constraints that a software system must satisfy. It encompasses elicitation t…