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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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Distributed Proofreaders(also: DP, PGDP)
A long-running volunteer crowdsourcing initiative, founded in 2000, that proofreads OCR output for Project Gutenberg using a side-by-side web interface showing the scanned page image and the extracted text. Distributed Proofreaders has been credited with accelerating Project…
Project Gutenberg
The oldest mass digital-library project, founded by Michael Hart in 1971, offering tens of thousands of public-domain ebooks in plain text, HTML, and EPUB. Project Gutenberg titles are widely used as a free accessible-text source by people with print disabilities, and its…
Trove
An online discovery service operated by the National Library of Australia that aggregates digitised books, newspapers, images, archives, and other cultural-heritage content, with integrated OCR-error correction tools. Trove is frequently cited in accessibility and crowdsourcing…

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