Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Face Recognition(also: Facial Recognition, Face Detection)
- A technology that uses computer vision and machine learning to identify or verify a person by analysing their facial features from images or video. In accessibility contexts, face recognition has significant potential as an assistive tool for blind and deafblind people, enabling…
- Fair Compensation(also: Equitable Compensation, Research Compensation)
- The practice of providing adequate and equitable payment to research participants for their time, expertise, and contributions. In accessibility research, fair compensation is particularly important because participants with disabilities contribute specialized lived expertise…
- Forced Intimacy
- Forced Intimacy is a concept coined by disability and transformative justice activist Mia Mingus that describes the experience of disabled people being expected to share very personal information with non-disabled people simply to access basic services, navigate public spaces,…
- Fraudulent Participants(also: Impostor Participants, Fake Participants)
- Individuals who falsely claim to meet a study's eligibility criteria in order to participate in research, typically for financial compensation. In accessibility research, fraudulent participants may claim to have disabilities they do not have, undermining data validity and…
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