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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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Midas Touch Problem(also: Midas Touch Effect)
The Midas Touch problem is a well-known challenge in gaze-based and dwell-time-based computer interfaces where everything the user looks at or pauses the cursor over is interpreted as a selection command. Named after King Midas who turned everything he touched to gold, the…
Midas Touch Problem(also: Midas Touch, Gaze Cursor Problem)
A fundamental challenge in eye-gaze interaction where every object a user looks at becomes unintentionally selected, because the eyes serve dual purposes: looking at objects to perceive them and looking at objects to interact with them. Named after King Midas who turned…

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