Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Context-Appropriate Technology (Appropriate Technology, Context-Appropriate AT)
- Technology, particularly assistive technology, that is designed or selected to fit the specific social, economic, cultural, and environmental context in which it will be used. Context-appropriate tech…
- Context-Aware (Context-Aware Design, Context-Sensitive)
- An approach to designing systems, content, or interfaces that adapt their behavior or output based on the context in which they are used, including the user's goals, the platform or source where conte…
- Context-Aware Computing (Context Awareness, Situational Awareness Computing)
- Computing systems that can sense and adapt their behavior based on the user's current context, including location, activity, environment, and task state. In accessibility, context-aware systems go bey…
- Context-Aware Interface (Context-Sensitive Interface, Adaptive Interface)
- A user interface that dynamically adapts its content, features, or behavior based on the user's current context, such as their location, current task, time of day, or the website they are visiting. In…
- Context-Free Grammar (CFG, Formal Grammar)
- A formal system for defining the syntactic rules of a language, consisting of a set of production rules that describe how symbols can be combined to form valid expressions. In accessibility and assist…
- Contextual Design (Context-Sensitive Design, Situated Design)
- A design approach that grounds technology development in a deep understanding of users' actual contexts, workflows, constraints, and cultural settings, rather than designing for idealized or generic u…
- Contextual Factors
- The characteristics of a person, their tools, or their environment that influence experiences of access or inaccessibility. Contextual factors include identity-related factors (race, gender, class, ag…
- Contextual Inquiry (CI, Contextual Interview)
- A user research method in which a researcher observes and interviews a participant in their natural work or living environment while they perform their typical tasks. The researcher adopts an apprenti…
- Contextual Integrity (CI, Contextual Privacy)
- A privacy framework developed by Helen Nissenbaum that defines privacy not as secrecy but as the appropriate flow of information according to context-specific norms. According to contextual integrity,…
- Contextual Learning (Context-Dependent Learning)
- The tendency of both humans and AI systems to learn patterns and behaviours from the surrounding context rather than from abstract rules. In web development, contextual learning means that developers …
- Contextual Reinforcement (Header Reinforcement)
- A technique in aural and non-visual rendering of tabular data where column headers, row labels, or other structural context is repeated alongside data values to help users understand the relationships…
- Continual Learning (Continuous Learning, Lifelong Learning, Never-ending Learning)
- A machine learning paradigm in which models learn incrementally from new data over time while retaining previously acquired knowledge, rather than being trained once on a fixed dataset. Continual lear…
- Continuing Bonds
- Continuing bonds is a theory of grief, developed by Klass, Silverman and Nickman in the 1990s, which holds that healthy mourning often involves maintaining an ongoing relationship with a deceased or a…
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD, Professional Development)
- The ongoing process through which professionals maintain, update, and expand their knowledge and skills throughout their careers. In the context of digital accessibility, CPD programs train developers…
- Continuous Input (Continuous Control, Analog Input)
- Continuous input is any interaction technique in which the user varies a parameter smoothly along a range rather than selecting from a set of discrete options — adjusting a slider, dragging a brush, t…
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, CI/CD Pipeline)
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is a software development practice where code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for release on an ongoing basis. In accessibility…
- Continuous Motion Input (Gesture Typing, Swipe Input)
- A text entry method where the user traces a continuous path across an on-screen keyboard, passing through the desired letters or keys without lifting their finger. This approach can be faster than dis…
- Continuous Sign Language (Connected Sign Language, Continuous Signing)
- Sign language produced in natural, flowing sentences and discourse, as opposed to isolated individual signs. Continuous sign language includes phenomena like co-articulation (where one sign influences…
- Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR)
- A computer vision task that involves recognizing sign language from continuous, naturally produced signing — as opposed to isolated sign recognition, which identifies individual signs in segmented cli…
- Continuous Specification (Continuous Positioning, Continuous Cursor Movement)
- In cursor control interfaces, a positioning method where the cursor moves steadily in a given direction at a controlled rate until the user signals it to stop. This approach allows precise positioning…