Glossary
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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