Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Technoableism
- A concept describing how technology is framed as a solution to disability in ways that reinforce ableist assumptions, treating disability primarily as a problem to be fixed rather than a form of human diversity. Coined in the context of disability studies and critical technology…
- Text Alternatives(also: Text Alternative, Text Equivalent)
- WCAG 2.1 Guideline 1.1 and success criterion 1.1.1 require that all non-text content (images, charts, audio, video, form controls, etc.) have a text alternative serving the equivalent purpose. Text alternatives can be presented as alt text on an image, an aria-label on a…
- Transparency in AI(also: AI Transparency, Algorithmic Transparency)
- The principle that AI systems should clearly communicate how they work, what data they use, where processing occurs, and what their limitations are. In accessibility contexts, blind users have expressed strong desires to understand how AI-enabled privacy techniques are designed,…
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