Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Re-identification risk(also: De-anonymization risk, Data re-identification)
- The possibility that an individual can be identified from supposedly anonymized data by combining multiple data points or matching against external datasets. People with disabilities face heightened re-identification risk because uncommon combinations of attributes — rare…
- Reverse Privacy Paradox
- The reverse privacy paradox is a pattern, described by Zhang and colleagues in research on LLM-based conversational agents, in which users appear to disregard privacy concerns in the moment of use while still recognising those concerns exist and being willing to adopt…
- Revocable Consent(also: Withdrawable Consent)
- A consent pattern in which the user can withdraw their previously granted permission at any time, typically through a persistent, discoverable UI control that immediately halts data processing and triggers deletion of data collected under that consent. A stronger form than…
- Right to Erasure(also: Right to be Forgotten, GDPR Article 17)
- A user right under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Article 17) to have their personal data deleted by a data controller when certain conditions are met (e.g., data no longer needed, consent withdrawn, unlawful processing). Implemented in accessible products through…
- Role-Based Access Control(also: RBAC)
- An authorisation model in which system permissions are attached to roles (e.g., user, administrator, clinician, caregiver) and users are granted one or more roles rather than permissions directly. Widely used in healthcare, enterprise software, and increasingly in…
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