Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Task Initiation(also: Task Starting, Getting Started)
- The executive function skill of beginning a task or activity, particularly when the task is complex, unstructured, or perceived as uninteresting. Task initiation is a common area of difficulty for people with ADHD and other executive function challenges. The difficulty is not…
- Time Agnosia(also: Time Blindness)
- Difficulty accurately perceiving the passage of time, common in ADHD and often manifesting as losing track of hours while scrolling, underestimating how long tasks take, or chronic lateness. The ADHD community increasingly prefers the term "agnosia" over "blindness" to avoid…
- Tone indicator(also: Tone tag)
- A text-based marker appended to online messages to explicitly signal the intended emotional tone or communicative intent, such as /s for sarcasm, /j for joking, /gen for genuine, or /srs for serious. Tone indicators emerged from neurodivergent online communities to address the…
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