Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Communication Privacy Management Theory(also: CPM, CPM Theory)
- A communication theory developed by Sandra Petronio that treats private information as something people own and collectively manage through negotiated rules about boundaries, co-ownership, and turbulence (boundary violations). CPM is widely used to analyse online…
- Emoji(also: Emojis)
- Small pictographic characters — faces, gestures, objects, symbols — encoded as Unicode code points and rendered by platform-specific font sets, used to convey affect, tone, and non-verbal nuance in otherwise text-based or visually-limited communication. For accessibility, emoji…
- Screenshorting(also: Screenshot Tweeting, Text as Image)
- The practice of sharing text content as a screenshot or image rather than as actual text, often to circumvent character limits, preserve formatting, or avoid attribution. On social media platforms, users frequently post screenshots of text messages, articles, or other tweets as…
- Self-Disclosure Statement(also: SDS)
- A short first-person text in which a creator, researcher, or performer reveals personal information about their identity, background, training, and motivations for producing a piece of work. Self-disclosure statements are used in academic positionality writing, healthcare…
- Social Media
- Networked digital platforms — including Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, LINE, WhatsApp, and similar services — that enable users to create, share, and discuss content with others. For accessibility, social media raises questions about platform-level support for assistive technology…
- Social Media Video Captions(also: SMVC)
- An umbrella term for the textual or symbolic elements — platform-generated captions, creator-edited captions, user-generated captions, and non-speech information such as sound effects, music cues, or onomatopoeia — that are temporally aligned with video content on social media…
- User-Generated Captions(also: UGC captions)
- Captions created and added to video content by non-professional contributors — typically the video's own creator or community members — rather than by professional captioners or fully automated systems. On social media, user-generated captions are often implemented as open…
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