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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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Calibrated Trust(also: Appropriate Reliance, Trust Calibration)
An HCI and human-factors concept, articulated by Lee and See, describing the alignment between a user's trust in an automated or AI system and the system's actual capability in a given context: trusting the system when it is reliable and being skeptical when it is not. Designing…
Chart Question Answering(also: Chart QA, ChartQA, Visual Question Answering for Charts)
The task of answering natural-language questions about a data visualization, typically a chart provided as an image or structured specification. A chart question answering system must identify the chart type, extract the underlying data, interpret axes and legends, and answer…
Clarifying Question(also: Clarifying Questions, Counter-Question)
A clarifying question is a follow-up query posed by a system or interlocutor to resolve ambiguity, fill missing context, or confirm intent before acting on a user's request. In conversational interfaces, clarifying questions are a core mechanism of mixed-initiative interaction:…
Confidence Indicator(also: Confidence Score, Uncertainty Indicator)
An interface element that communicates how certain an AI or automated system is about a given output, helping users decide how much to trust the result. In accessibility tools for blind and low-vision users, confidence indicators are especially important because users cannot…

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