Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Daily Data Analysis (DDA, Everyday Data Analysis)
- The common, everyday tasks of analyzing and deriving insights from data that people perform in their daily lives or work, such as splitting expenses among friends, computing stock portfolio changes, c…
- Daily Form (Daily Functioning Level)
- The concept that a person's physical and cognitive capabilities can vary significantly from day to day due to chronic conditions, pain levels, fatigue, medication effects, sleep quality, and other fac…
- Daily Living Skills (Activities of Daily Living, ADLs, Self-Care Skills)
- The fundamental self-care tasks that individuals perform routinely, including personal hygiene (tooth-brushing, hand-washing, bathing), dressing, eating, toileting, and basic household tasks. For indi…
- Dale-Chall Readability Formula (Dale-Chall, New Dale-Chall)
- A readability formula first published by Edgar Dale and Jeanne Chall in 1948 and revised in 1995. Unlike formulas that rely only on surface counts, Dale-Chall compares every word in a text against a m…
- Daltonization (Recolouring, Color Remapping)
- Daltonization is a computational technique that modifies the colours in an image or on a screen to make them more distinguishable for people with colour vision deficiency (CVD). Named after John Dalto…
- Damage-centered Design (Damage-centered Research, Deficit-framed Design)
- An approach in HCI and design research that frames marginalized communities - including disabled people, BIPOC communities, and others - primarily through the lens of harms, deficits, and barriers to …
- Dark Mode (Dark Theme, Night Mode)
- A display setting that uses light-colored text and interface elements on a dark background, reversing the typical light-mode color scheme. Dark mode can benefit users with light sensitivity, photophob…
- Dark Pattern (Deceptive Pattern, Manipulative Design)
- A user interface design deliberately crafted to trick, manipulate, or coerce users into making unintended choices that benefit the service provider rather than the user. Dark patterns include hidden c…
- Dark Patterns (Deceptive Design Patterns, Deceptive Patterns, Manipulative Design, Manipulative User Interfaces)
- User interface designs that trick or manipulate users into taking actions they did not intend, such as subscribing to services, sharing personal data, or accepting unfavorable terms. In the context of…
- Dashboard Accessibility (Accessible Dashboards)
- The practice of designing data dashboards — visual interfaces combining charts, key performance indicators, filtering widgets, and interactive data querying — so they are usable by people with disabil…
- Dasher
- A zooming text entry interface in which users write by navigating through a world of nested boxes, each labeled with a letter and sized proportionally to its probability under a language model. Users …
- Data Accessibility (Accessible Data, Data Access)
- The practice of making data and data-related tools usable by people with disabilities, ensuring that information presented in tables, charts, graphs, spreadsheets, and databases can be perceived, unde…
- Data Annotation (Data labeling, AI labeling)
- The process of attaching labels, transcriptions, bounding boxes, or other structured metadata to raw data so that it can be used to train, evaluate, or benchmark machine-learning models. Annotation is…
- Data Colonialism
- A critical framework, advanced by Couldry and Mejias (2019) and others, that describes how contemporary data extraction practices replicate historical patterns of colonialism — appropriating resources…
- Data Comics (Visual Data Comics, Narrative Visualization)
- An emerging genre of data visualization that presents complex information in a sequential, comic-like format with discrete panels that progressively reveal data and narrative. Data comics break down c…
- Data Descriptor (Training Data Descriptor)
- An automated metric or feedback mechanism that characterizes the quality or properties of a dataset, particularly training images used in machine learning. In accessibility research, data descriptors …
- Data Exploration (Exploratory Data Analysis, EDA)
- The process of investigating and examining datasets to discover patterns, spot anomalies, test hypotheses, and check assumptions, typically as a preliminary step before formal analysis. For blind and …
- Data Feminism
- A framework developed by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein that applies intersectional feminist thought to the practice of working with data, offering seven principles including examining power, ch…
- Data Glove (digital glove, sensor glove, wired glove)
- A wearable input device equipped with sensors to capture hand and finger movements, positions, and orientations. Data gloves use technologies like gyroscopes, accelerometers, flex sensors, or fiber op…
- Data Literacy (Data Fluency)
- The ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. Data literacy encompasses skills such as knowing how to interpret charts and graphs, identify trends and outliers, underst…