Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Confidence Indicator (Confidence Score, Uncertainty Indicator)
- An interface element that communicates how certain an AI or automated system is about a given output, helping users decide how much to trust the result. In accessibility tools for blind and low-vision…
- Confidence Score (Confidence Rating, Certainty Score)
- A numerical measure output by AI systems indicating how certain the system is about a particular result or classification. While confidence scores have been proposed as a way to help users assess AI a…
- Confidence score (Certainty score, Prediction confidence)
- A numerical value (typically 0-100% or 0-1) indicating how certain an AI system is about its prediction or classification. In accessibility contexts, communicating confidence scores to users — particu…
- Confirmation Dialogue (Confirmation Dialog, Verification Prompt)
- An interaction pattern where a system summarizes a proposed action and asks the user to confirm before executing it. In accessible calendar design and voice assistant interactions, confirmation dialog…
- Confirmation Message (Positive Feedback, On-track Feedback, Progress Confirmation)
- A system message that reassures users they are performing a task correctly or are on the right path, as opposed to only providing error messages or corrective instructions. In assistive technology and…
- Conformance Evaluation (Conformance Assessment, Accessibility Conformance Testing)
- The process of systematically assessing whether a website, application, or digital product meets the requirements of a specific accessibility standard, typically WCAG at a designated conformance level…
- Conformance Level (WCAG Level, Priority Level)
- The three-tiered classification system used by WCAG to rank success criteria by their importance and impact on accessibility. Level A represents the minimum baseline — criteria that must be met or som…
- Conformance Review (WCAG Conformance Review, Conformance Evaluation, Accessibility Conformance Review)
- A conformance review is a systematic evaluation of a website or web application against a specific set of accessibility guidelines, most commonly WCAG, to determine whether and to what level the conte…
- Conformance Testing (Compliance Testing, Guideline Review)
- An accessibility evaluation method that checks whether a website or digital product meets the requirements specified by accessibility guidelines or standards such as WCAG. Conformance testing can be p…
- Confusion Matrix (Error Matrix)
- A table used to characterize the accuracy of an input system by showing the probability that an intended signal will be correctly recognized versus misinterpreted as a different signal. In assistive t…
- Congenital Blindness (Congenital Vision Loss)
- Blindness or severe visual impairment present from birth or very early childhood, as opposed to acquired or adventitious blindness that develops later in life. The distinction is significant for acces…
- Connected Learning
- A culturally-embedded learning paradigm developed by Mizŭko Ito and colleagues that frames rich learning as emerging from interest-driven, peer-supported, and academically-oriented activities across a…
- Connected Speech Recognition (Continuous Speech Recognition)
- A form of automatic speech recognition in which users speak words naturally, with normal coarticulation and minimal pauses, rather than pausing between each word as required by older 'discrete' or 'is…
- Connected TV (Smart TV, Internet TV, CTV)
- A television set or set-top box that can connect to the Internet, providing access to interactive features beyond traditional broadcast content including streaming applications, electronic programme g…
- Consent (Informed Consent)
- Voluntary, informed, and revocable agreement by a person to a particular action or interaction involving them - whether that is sexual activity, data collection, medical treatment, research participat…
- Consent Model (Consent Framework)
- A prescriptive framework specifying how consent should be requested, given, sustained, and revoked in a particular interaction context. Examples include affirmative consent (explicit verbal agreement)…
- Consequence Calculus
- The decision-making process by which disabled individuals weigh all available options for addressing an access barrier and select the option that best matches their priorities given their contextual f…
- Consequence-Based Accessibility
- A framework introduced by Mack and McDonnell that describes how people with chronic illnesses experience access barriers where the consequences of their actions, rather than the nature of the task its…
- Constitutional AI (CAI)
- A training method introduced by Anthropic in 2022 in which a large language model is aligned to a written set of principles (a 'constitution') through self-critique and reinforcement learning from AI …
- Constrained Creativity (Constrained Design, Creative Constraints)
- Constrained creativity is a design approach that supports creative expression by deliberately limiting the choices available to users, providing structure and boundaries within which they can create. …