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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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Emotional Mediation Hypothesis
A theoretical account, originating in work by Palmer and colleagues, that explains cross-modal associations between sensory attributes (such as colors and musical timbres) as being mediated by shared emotional meaning rather than by direct perceptual mapping. For example, people…
Error Profile(also: Accessibility Error Profile, Violation Profile)
An error profile is a structured summary of the accessibility issues detected on a page, typically represented as a numeric vector with one component per checkpoint or rule — counts of violations, binary pass/fail indicators, or failure rates. Error profiles were introduced in…

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