Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Teachable AI (Teachable Machine Learning, Interactive Machine Learning)
- Teachable AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that allow end users to personalize the system by providing their own training examples, high-level constraints, or prompts — without requiring p…
- Teachable Object Recognition (Teachable Object Recognizer, TOR, Personalized Object Recognition)
- A machine learning approach that allows users to train an object recognition system to identify their own personal items by providing a small number of training examples, typically photos or videos. T…
- Teachable Object Recognizer (Teachable Machine, Personalized Object Recognizer)
- A machine learning application that allows end users to train custom object recognition models by providing their own example images, rather than relying on pre-trained models with fixed categories. I…
- Teacher of Blind Students (TBS, Teacher of the Visually Impaired, TVI, Vision Teacher)
- A specially licensed educator trained to teach students who are blind or have low vision. TBSs provide instruction in the expanded core curriculum, which includes Braille literacy, orientation and mob…
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI, Vision Teacher, Teacher of the Visually Impaired)
- A specialized educator certified to teach students who are blind or have low vision, providing instruction in the expanded core curriculum including braille literacy, orientation and mobility concepts…
- Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI, Vision Teacher, Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments)
- A specialized educator trained to work with students who are blind or have low vision, providing instruction in skills such as Braille, use of assistive technology, orientation and mobility, and adapt…
- Teacher with Vision Impairment (TVI, Visually Impaired Teacher, Blind Teacher)
- An educator who is blind or has low vision and teaches in educational settings, often in schools for the blind where they share the lived experience of their students. TVIs are particularly prominent …
- Tech support for older adults (Senior tech support, Elder tech assistance)
- The provision of guidance, troubleshooting, and learning resources to help older adults use digital technologies effectively. Research identifies two key dimensions: self-reliant support (online tutor…
- Technical Agency
- Technical agency, in the context of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), refers to an individual's ability to actively participate in and contribute to a conversation through direct actio…
- Techno-Solutionism (Technological Solutionism, Tech Solutionism)
- The belief that technology can solve complex social, political, and cultural problems, often without addressing underlying systemic causes. In accessibility, techno-solutionism manifests as the assump…
- Technoableism
- A concept describing how technology is framed as a solution to disability in ways that reinforce ableist assumptions, treating disability primarily as a problem to be fixed rather than a form of human…
- Technocapitalist Disability Rhetoric
- A term describing the marketing and promotional language used by technology companies that recasts lived disability experience into marketable suffering and positions technological products as purchas…
- Technology Abandonment (Device Abandonment, Technology Discontinuance)
- The phenomenon where users stop using a technology or assistive device after initial adoption, often due to poor usability, lack of perceived benefit, inadequate training, or misalignment with actual …
- Technology Acceptance (Technology Adoption, TAM)
- The process by which individuals evaluate, adopt, and integrate new technology into their routines, often modeled through frameworks like the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) which emphasizes perceiv…
- Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
- A theoretical framework originally developed by Fred Davis in 1989 that explains how users come to accept and use a technology. TAM posits that technology adoption depends on two primary factors: perc…
- Technology Adoption (AT Adoption, Technology Uptake)
- The process by which individuals begin using and integrating new technology into their daily routines. In accessibility contexts, technology adoption encompasses the decision to acquire assistive tech…
- Technology Adoption Model (TAM)
- A theoretical framework developed by Fred Davis that explains how users come to accept and use new technology. The model proposes that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are the primary fa…
- Technology Amplification Theory (Technology as Amplifier)
- A theory proposed by Kentaro Toyama positing that technology amplifies existing human intent and capacity rather than creating new capabilities from scratch. In the context of assistive technology and…
- Technology Biography (Technology Biographies)
- A qualitative research method consisting of structured interview and observation sessions focused on specific elements of a user's interaction with technological artifacts. Developed by Blythe and col…
- Technology Dependency (Tech Dependency, Digital Dependency)
- The state of relying on technology to perform tasks that one might otherwise accomplish independently, or the risk that technology use persists beyond the original need. In disability and accessibilit…