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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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Listenability(also: Auditory Readability, Speech-Output Quality)
A web-accessibility usability metric that measures how appropriate a page's rendered text is when read aloud by a screen reader or voice browser — complementary to, and distinct from, raw WCAG conformance. Listenability penalises meaningless or placeholder ALT text (such as…
Literacy Bias(also: Literacy bias of a metric)
In accessibility research methodology, a literacy bias describes the phenomenon where an evaluation metric systematically produces different scores for participants with different reading-literacy levels, independent of the characteristic being measured. For example,…

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