Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Anchoring Effect(also: Anchoring Bias, Cognitive Anchoring)
- A cognitive bias in which people rely too heavily on an initial piece of information (the "anchor") when making subsequent decisions or judgements. In the context of digital accessibility, the anchoring effect has been documented in alt text authoring, where content authors who…
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