Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Information Foraging(also: Information Foraging Theory)
- A theoretical framework from cognitive science that models how people search for and navigate to information, drawing an analogy to animal foraging behaviour. Users assess "information scent" — cues like link text, headings, and page structure — to decide whether to continue…
- Information Quality(also: IQ, Data Quality)
- A measure of how well information meets the needs of its consumers, encompassing dimensions such as accuracy, completeness, currency, relevance, and reliability. In accessibility and disability contexts, information quality on digital platforms is critical because people with…
- Intermedia(also: Intermedia Representation)
- Intermedia refers to a framework for information representation that supports diverse, adaptable, and flexible presentation modes, allowing the same content to be accessed through multiple alternative forms suited to individual needs and capabilities. Unlike multimedia (which…
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