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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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Eigenfaces
A computer vision technique for face recognition that uses Principal Component Analysis to represent faces as a linear combination of standardized face components (eigenvectors derived from a training set of face images). Developed by Turk and Pentland in 1991, Eigenfaces was…
Element Detection(also: UI Element Detection, Widget Detection, Object Detection)
The task of automatically identifying the locations and types of user interface components (such as buttons, text fields, images, and checkboxes) from a screenshot using computer vision models. Element detection is important for accessibility because it can identify interactive…
Explainable AI(also: XAI, Interpretable AI)
A set of methods and design approaches that make the outputs and decision-making processes of artificial intelligence systems understandable to human users. Explainable AI aims to provide transparency about why an AI produced a particular result, typically through confidence…

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