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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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PRISMA-ScR(also: PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews)
PRISMA-ScR is the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews - a 20-item checklist and flow diagram that standardises how scoping reviews are reported. It adapts the PRISMA framework (designed for systematic reviews) to the…
Part of Speech(also: POS, Word Class, POS Tag)
A grammatical category assigned to each word (or, in signed languages, each sign) in a sentence — such as noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, or conjunction. Automatic part-of-speech tagging is a foundational step in natural language processing pipelines. In…
Participant pool(also: User pool, Research panel, Participant registry)
A pre-established database of individuals who have expressed willingness to participate in research studies, maintained with demographic information, contact details, and often cognitive or ability assessments. In accessibility research, dedicated participant pools address the…
Perceptual Integration(also: Perceptual Binding)
The process by which the brain combines information arriving through different sensory channels — vision, hearing, touch, proprioception — into a single coherent percept of an object or event. Perceptual integration depends on temporal synchrony (cues arriving within roughly 100…
Pronominal Reference(also: Pronoun Reference, Anaphoric Reference)
The use of pronouns or pronoun-like expressions to refer back to entities previously introduced in a discourse. In spoken and written languages this is typically achieved with words such as "he," "she," "it," or "they"; in American Sign Language and other signed languages,…
Pseudo-participation(also: Pseudo-participation by Design)
A term coined by Palacin et al. (2020) to describe forms of user involvement in design that appear participatory on the surface but grant participants limited power to shape outcomes. In accessibility and AI contexts, pseudo-participation occurs when disabled people are invited…
Psycholinguistics
The scientific study of the cognitive and neural processes that underlie the production, comprehension, and acquisition of language. Psycholinguistic research measures phenomena such as reading and signing rate, comprehension under time pressure, lexical access, and the role of…

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