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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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Lexile Framework(also: Lexile, Lexile Measure)
A commercial readability framework developed by MetaMetrics that places both texts and readers on a common scale — the Lexile measure — to support matching readers with materials at an appropriate level of challenge. A text's Lexile measure is computed from sentence length and…
Literacy Bias(also: Literacy bias of a metric)
In accessibility research methodology, a literacy bias describes the phenomenon where an evaluation metric systematically produces different scores for participants with different reading-literacy levels, independent of the characteristic being measured. For example,…

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