Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(also: OCD)
- A mental health condition affecting approximately 2% of the world population, characterized by recurrent, intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that cause significant anxiety, and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) performed to relieve that anxiety. OCD…
- Older Adults(also: Seniors, Elderly, Aging Population)
- People typically aged 65 and above who may experience age-related changes in vision, hearing, motor control, and cognition that affect how they interact with technology. Designing for older adults requires attention to larger text sizes, higher contrast, simplified navigation,…
- Overcompensation(also: Positive overcorrection, Debiasing overcorrection)
- In the context of AI bias and disability representation, overcompensation (also called positive overcorrection) refers to a failure mode in which a model's debiasing mechanisms over-adjust away from negative portrayals, producing excessively or unrealistically positive…
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