Sighted Bias

The tendency in technology design to privilege sighted ways of perceiving and understanding the world, often unconsciously centering visual sensibilities in interfaces, descriptions, and assessment criteria. In accessibility contexts, sighted bias manifests when designers create features based on how sighted people process information — such as using color, spatial dimensions, or distance as primary descriptors — without considering that these attributes may be meaningless or irrelevant to blind users, particularly those born blind.