Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Disability Simulation(also: Disability Simulator, Empathy Exercise)
- A method of accessibility evaluation where non-disabled people experience approximations of the barriers faced by people with disabilities when using technology or navigating environments. In web accessibility, disability simulation tools like IBM's aDesigner visualize how…
- Disability-Centered Evaluation(also: Disability-Centric Evaluation, Disability-First Evaluation)
- An approach to evaluating AI systems, tools, or research artefacts that places disabled people's lived experiences, information needs, and failure contexts at the centre of study design — including which data are collected, how ground truth is annotated, which models are tested,…
- Discriminative Ability(also: Discriminative ability of a metric, Discriminability)
- In accessibility research methodology, the property of an evaluation metric to reveal statistically significant differences between stimuli that are known to differ along the dimension being measured. For example, a comprehension-question metric has discriminative ability for…
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