Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Unity Assumption
- A concept from multisensory-perception research (Welch and Warren, 1980; Welch, 1999) describing the observer's implicit judgement that signals arriving through different senses originate from the same underlying event or object. When the unity assumption holds, the brain fuses…
- User Interface Agent(also: Interface Agent, Software Agent, Assistant Agent)
- A software component that observes user behaviour and the state of an application, then unobtrusively offers help — suggestions, shortcuts, summaries, or warnings — to reduce workload or prevent errors. In accessibility research, interface agents have been used to monitor a…
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