Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Meta-Research(also: Research on research, Metascience)
- The systematic study of research itself — the tools, workflows, norms, infrastructures, and institutional practices through which scholarly knowledge is produced, evaluated, and disseminated. Meta-research examines questions such as which methods and technologies researchers…
- Metadata Repository(also: Metadata Store, Metadata Registry)
- A server-side system that stores and serves descriptive data about other resources — in accessibility contexts, typically information about web pages or their elements that helps assistive technology render them more usably. A metadata repository lets multiple tools share the…
- Mini-VLAT(also: Miniature VLAT)
- A 12-item short-form version of the Visualization Literacy Assessment Test developed by Pandey and Ottley that preserves reliability while reducing participant burden. Each chart type from the original VLAT is represented by a single question, making it well-suited for…
- Multi-Objective Optimization(also: Many-Objective Optimization, Pareto Optimization)
- A computational approach to finding solutions that simultaneously satisfy multiple, potentially conflicting goals. Unlike single-objective optimization which seeks one best answer, multi-objective optimization produces a set of trade-off solutions where improving one objective…
- Multimodal Natural Language Generation(also: Multimodal NLG)
- Natural language generation systems that produce output coordinated across more than one modality — typically combinations of text or speech with graphics, maps, animation, gesture, or tactile output. Multimodal NLG systems decompose their output into several "channels" that are…
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