Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- ADKAR (ADKAR Model, ADKAR Change Management Model)
- A goal-oriented change management model developed by Prosci that identifies five sequential outcomes an individual must achieve for organizational change to succeed: Awareness of the need for change, …
- AHEAD (Association on Higher Education And Disability)
- The Association on Higher Education And Disability, a professional organization that provides resources, guidelines, and program standards for disability services offices in postsecondary education. A…
- AI Accountability (Algorithmic Accountability, AI Governance)
- The principle that developers, deployers, and operators of AI systems should be held responsible for the outcomes those systems produce, including negative effects on marginalized populations such as …
- AI Auditing (Algorithmic Auditing, AI Audit)
- The systematic evaluation of an AI system's outputs, behaviour, or training data to identify harms such as bias, stereotype reproduction, or accessibility failures. Audits may be conducted by industry…
- AI Bias (Algorithmic Bias, Machine Learning Bias)
- Systematic and unfair discrimination in AI system outputs that arises from biased training data, flawed model design, or unrepresentative assumptions embedded in the development process. In accessibil…
- AI Chatbot Accessibility (Accessible AI, LLM Accessibility)
- The design and evaluation of AI-powered chatbots and large language model applications to ensure they are usable by and beneficial to people with disabilities. This encompasses both the technical acce…
- AI Code Assistant (AI coding assistant, AI programming assistant)
- A developer tool powered by large language models that provides code completion, natural-language explanations, refactoring, bug fixes, and conversational programming support inside an IDE or editor. …
- AI Code Generation (Code Generation Model, AI Coding Assistant, LLM Code Generation)
- The use of large language models and machine learning to automatically generate, suggest, or complete source code based on natural language prompts or existing code context. Tools like GitHub Copilot,…
- AI Coding Assistant (AI Pair Programmer, Code Copilot)
- An artificial intelligence tool integrated into code editors that assists developers by generating code suggestions, completing code snippets, and answering programming questions using large language …
- AI Companion (Chatbot Companion, AI Companionship)
- An AI companion is an artificial-intelligence system - typically a text, voice or avatar-based chatbot built on a large language model - explicitly designed to offer users a sense of social presence, …
- AI Confidence (Model Confidence, Prediction Confidence)
- A measure of how certain an AI model is about a particular output or prediction. In the context of image descriptions for BLV users, AI confidence can be communicated through various means: internal p…
- AI Content Describer (NVDA AI Content Describer)
- AI Content Describer is an add-on for the NVDA screen reader that uses multimodal AI models to generate descriptions of on-screen visual content — images, controls, icons, charts, and arbitrary screen…
- AI Dubbing (AI Voice Generation, Neural TTS Dubbing)
- The use of artificial intelligence text-to-speech systems to generate spoken narration and character dialogue for media production. In accessible webtoon and comic production, AI dubbing offers a cost…
- AI Fairness (Algorithmic Fairness, Fair AI)
- The principle that AI systems should not create or reinforce unfair bias against particular groups. Standard AI fairness frameworks primarily address race and gender but are increasingly recognized as…
- AI Ghostwriter Effect (Ghostwriter Effect)
- A phenomenon, first named by Draxler and colleagues, in which people who use AI writing assistants do not perceive themselves as authors or owners of the resulting text yet still publicly self-declare…
- AI Hallucination (Model Hallucination, Confabulation)
- The phenomenon where an AI model generates confident, plausible-sounding responses that are factually incorrect, fabricated, or not grounded in the actual input data. In accessibility contexts, AI hal…
- AI Hiring Interview (Automated Video Interview, AVI, Asynchronous Video Interview, AI Video Interview)
- An asynchronous job-interview process in which candidates record video responses to pre-recorded or text-based questions on a platform that uses artificial intelligence to analyse facial expressions, …
- AI Homogenization (AI-Driven Homogenization, Generative AI Homogenization Effect)
- The tendency for generative AI systems to produce outputs that converge toward similar patterns, reducing the diversity and uniqueness of results across different users and contexts. In accessibility …
- AI Incident Database (AIID, AI Incident Tracker)
- A publicly accessible repository that documents reported incidents where AI-driven systems have caused harm or produced negative outcomes for individuals, communities, or society. Major databases incl…
- AI Mental Model (Mental Model of AI, User Mental Model of AI)
- A user's conceptual representation of how an artificial intelligence system works, including beliefs about its information sources, processing methods, capabilities, and limitations. Mental models of …