Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Auto-Generated Captions (Automatic Captions, AI Captions, Machine-Generated Captions)
- Captions automatically created by speech recognition technology without human review or editing. Video platforms like YouTube and TikTok offer auto-generated captions as a default accessibility featur…
- Auto-Personalization (Automatic Personalization, Preference Portability)
- The ability to automatically configure a digital device's interface, accessibility settings, and assistive technology software to match an individual user's needs and preferences without requiring the…
- Auto-label (Automatic Labeling, Heuristic Labeling)
- A feature in authoring tools or runtime environments that automatically generates accessible labels for interactive elements when a developer has not explicitly provided one. For example, Adobe Flash …
- Autobiographical Design
- A design research method in which the designer systematically builds and lives with a system intended for their own use, then reflects on that long-term engagement as a source of design insight. Forma…
- Autoethnography
- A qualitative research method in which the researcher uses their own personal experience as primary data to explore broader cultural, social, or systemic phenomena. In disability and accessibility res…
- Autofill (Form Autofill, Auto-fill)
- A browser or operating-system feature that automatically populates form fields (name, address, email, payment details) from stored user data. From an accessibility standpoint, autofill reduces typing …
- Automated Accessibility Testing (Automated A11y Testing, Accessibility Scanning)
- The use of software tools to programmatically check web content against accessibility guidelines such as WCAG. Tools like Axe, WAVE, Google Lighthouse, and AChecker translate accessibility rules into …
- Automated Accessibility Testing (Automated Testing, Accessibility Scanning, A11y Testing)
- The use of software tools to programmatically check web content against accessibility guidelines such as WCAG, identifying issues like missing alternative text, insufficient color contrast, empty link…
- Automated Decision Making (ADM, Automated Decision System, ADS)
- The use of software, statistical models, or AI to make or substantially inform decisions about people — eligibility for loans, jobs, benefits, housing, healthcare, or parole — with limited or no human…
- Automated Decision-Making (ADM, Algorithmic Decision-Making)
- The process of making decisions about individuals using automated means, typically involving AI or algorithmic systems, with limited or no human intervention. Under the GDPR, "solely automated" decisi…
- Automated Employment Decision System (AEDS, AEDT, Automated Employment Decision Tool)
- A software system that screens, evaluates, categorises, recommends, or otherwise makes or facilitates hiring or employment decisions about job candidates or workers. AEDSs span résumé sorters, persona…
- Automated Evaluation Tool (AET, Automated Testing Tool, Accessibility Checker)
- Software that automatically scans websites, applications, or documents to detect accessibility violations against standards such as WCAG or Section 508. Common examples include WAVE, axe, AChecker, an…
- Automated Readability Scoring (ARSS, Automated Readability Scoring System, Readability Assessment)
- The use of computational methods to automatically evaluate the reading difficulty level of a text. Traditional readability formulas like Flesch-Kincaid and Dale-Chall use surface features such as aver…
- Automated Speech Recognition (ASR, Speech-to-Text, Voice Recognition)
- Technology that converts spoken language into written text using machine learning and signal processing algorithms. In accessibility, ASR is used for real-time captioning, voice control of devices and…
- Automated Web GUI Testing (AWGT, Automated GUI Testing, Web Crawler Testing)
- Automated Web GUI Testing (AWGT) refers to software testing approaches that automatically explore web applications by performing GUI interactions such as clicking and form input, without requiring man…
- Automated accessibility testing (Automated a11y testing, Accessibility checker)
- The use of software tools to automatically evaluate digital content against accessibility standards, checking for issues like missing alt text, colour contrast violations, missing form labels, untagge…
- Automated speech scoring (Computer-aided speech assessment, Automatic speech evaluation)
- The use of computational techniques — including voice activity detection, phoneme recognition, prosody analysis, and speaker diarization — to automatically evaluate the accuracy and quality of speech …
- Automatic Alt Text (AI-generated Alt Text, Auto Alt Text, Machine-generated Alt Text)
- Alternative text for images that is automatically generated by artificial intelligence systems using computer vision and natural language processing. Platforms like Microsoft PowerPoint, Facebook, and…
- Automatic Caption Evaluation (ACE, ACE Framework, ACE Metric)
- A caption-quality evaluation framework introduced by Sushant Kafle and Matt Huenerfauth (2017-2018) that scores automatically generated captions based on their usability for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing r…
- Automatic Captions (Auto-Generated Captions, Auto Captions, ASR Captions)
- Captions produced by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems without human transcription, typically generated by the hosting platform (e.g., YouTube, Zoom, Microsoft Teams) as an optional layer on …