Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Anchoring Effect(also: Anchoring Bias, Cognitive Anchoring)
- A cognitive bias in which people rely too heavily on an initial piece of information (the "anchor") when making subsequent decisions or judgements. In the context of digital accessibility, the anchoring effect has been documented in alt text authoring, where content authors who…
- Arousal(also: Emotional Arousal, Activation)
- In affect and emotion research, arousal is the dimension of emotional experience that describes activation or energy level — how calm or excited a state feels — independent of whether the emotion is positive or negative (that second dimension is valence). In the widely used…
- Awe(also: Awe Experience)
- Awe is an emotional response to perceived vastness — physical, conceptual, social, or spiritual — that requires a person to update their mental models to accommodate it. It blends wonder, reverence, and sometimes fear, and is associated with reduced self-focus, increased…
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