Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Cognitive load (Mental load, Cognitive burden, Cognitive demand)
- The total amount of mental effort required to complete a task, encompassing the processing of information, decision-making, remembering instructions, and managing attention. Cognitive load theory, dev…
- Cognitive mapping (Mental mapping, Spatial cognitive map)
- Cognitive mapping refers to the mental process by which individuals construct, store, recall, and apply internal representations of their spatial environment to navigate and orient themselves. These m…
- Cognitive-Communication Needs (CCN, Cognitive-Communication Disorders)
- Difficulties in communication that arise from underlying cognitive deficits in areas such as attention, memory, organization, problem-solving, and executive function, rather than from primary language…
- Cognitively Assistive Robot (CAR)
- A category of socially assistive robot designed specifically to support people with cognitive impairments — most commonly mild cognitive impairment (MCI), dementia, traumatic brain injury, or learning…
- Coh-Metrix
- A web-based tool developed at the University of Memphis that analyses text on more than a hundred measures of language, cohesion, and readability, including referential and semantic cohesion, lexical …
- Cohen's Kappa (Kappa Statistic, Kappa Coefficient)
- A statistical measure of inter-rater reliability that accounts for agreement occurring by chance, used to assess the consistency between two or more raters coding qualitative data. Values range from -…
- Collaboration Awareness (Workspace awareness, Collaborator awareness)
- The ongoing, up-to-the-moment understanding of what collaborators are doing, where they are working, and what has recently changed in a shared workspace. In sighted collaboration, awareness is typical…
- Collaborative Access (Collective Access)
- An approach to accessibility that frames access as a shared, negotiated process involving multiple stakeholders rather than an individual accommodation provided to a single person. Collaborative acces…
- Collaborative Accessibility (Accessible Collaboration)
- Design approaches that ensure collaborative activities and shared workspaces are accessible to people with disabilities. Collaborative accessibility focuses on enabling meaningful participation in gro…
- Collaborative Accessibility Authoring (Collaborative Authoring, Crowdsourced Accessibility)
- An approach to web accessibility in which a community of volunteers collaboratively creates, maintains, and shares accessibility fixes for websites they do not own or control. Rather than relying sole…
- Collaborative Design (Collaborative Design Session)
- A design approach where multiple participants work together to create shared design solutions, building on each other's ideas and negotiating design decisions collectively. In accessible design worksh…
- Collaborative Editing (Collaborative Authoring, Co-Editing)
- The practice of multiple users simultaneously or sequentially creating and modifying shared documents or content. In accessibility contexts, collaborative editing poses particular challenges when part…
- Collaborative Ideation (Group brainstorming, Co-ideation)
- The joint process by which a group generates, refines, clusters, and converges on ideas, typically alternating between divergent and convergent thinking. Collaborative ideation is a cornerstone of des…
- Collaborative Learning (Cooperative Learning)
- An educational approach involving two or more individuals working together to build knowledge or skills through interaction, information sharing, and joint problem-solving. In sign language education,…
- Collaborative Memory (Distributed Cognition, Shared Memory)
- The process by which memory tasks and cognitive load are distributed across multiple people, typically within families or close social groups. In the context of disability and caregiving, collaborativ…
- Collaborative Note-Taking (Shared Note-Taking, Co-Note-Taking)
- An educational practice where two or more people collectively take notes, annotate content, exchange feedback, and ask questions about material being learned. In the context of disability support in h…
- Collaborative Play (Cooperative Play)
- Play in which two or more people work together toward a shared goal, coordinating their actions, attention, and turns rather than competing or playing in parallel. Collaborative play is a common vehic…
- Collaborative Robot (Cobot, Co-Robot)
- A robot designed to work alongside humans in shared workspaces, as opposed to traditional industrial robots that operate in isolation. Cobots are of particular interest for workplace inclusion because…
- Collaborative Tracking (Collaborative Self-Tracking)
- Collaborative tracking is the practice of multiple people - typically a person with a health condition and their caregivers or allies - contributing to and reviewing shared health or behaviour data. I…
- Collaborative Troubleshooting (Cooperative Problem-Solving)
- A process where two or more people work together to identify, diagnose, and resolve technical problems, sharing knowledge and strategies to reach a solution. In assistive technology contexts, collabor…