Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Colorism(also: Skin Tone Bias, Shadeism)
- Colorism is a form of discrimination in which people are treated differently based on the shade of their skin tone, typically favoring lighter skin over darker skin within and across racial groups. In digital accessibility, colorism is relevant to image descriptions and AI…
- NCAM(also: National Center for Accessible Media)
- A research and development facility at WGBH (Boston public media) that develops accessible media technologies and guidelines. NCAM created widely-adopted guidelines for describing STEM images (charts, graphs, diagrams) for people with visual impairments, developed through expert…
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