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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Digitized Assessment(also: Digitised Assessment, Digital Hiring Assessment, Computer-Based Employment Assessment)
A computer-based hiring test used by employers to evaluate candidates' personality, cognition, skills, or judgement. Common formats include personality inventories, gamified cognitive tasks (balloon-inflating risk tests, Flanker attention tasks, arithmetic mini-games),…
Disabling Factor(also: Disabling Condition, Situational Barrier)
An external condition that blocks or hinders an otherwise available ability from being used to complete a task. Disabling factors can arise from technology design (such as ability assumptions embedded in interfaces), environmental conditions (like noise or poor lighting), or…

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