Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- ADA(also: Americans with Disabilities Act)
- A landmark United States civil rights law enacted in 1990 that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including employment, education, transportation, and access to public and private places open to the general public. The ADA…
- Accessible Canada Act(also: ACA, Canadian Accessibility Act)
- Canadian federal legislation (S.C. 2019, c. 10) that aims to make Canada barrier-free by 2040 by requiring federally regulated organisations (banks, telecommunications, transportation, the federal government) to identify, remove, and prevent barriers in areas including…
- Automated Decision Making(also: ADM, Automated Decision System, ADS)
- The use of software, statistical models, or AI to make or substantially inform decisions about people — eligibility for loans, jobs, benefits, housing, healthcare, or parole — with limited or no human review. Regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, and…
- Automated Employment Decision System(also: AEDS, AEDT, Automated Employment Decision Tool)
- A software system that screens, evaluates, categorises, recommends, or otherwise makes or facilitates hiring or employment decisions about job candidates or workers. AEDSs span résumé sorters, personality tests, gamified cognitive assessments, situational-judgement tests,…
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