Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Coercion Resistance(also: Receipt-Freeness, Anti-Coercion)
- Coercion resistance is a security property of voting systems that prevents a coercer from verifying how a voter cast their ballot, even if the voter cooperates with the coercer. A related but weaker property, receipt-freeness, means the voter cannot produce proof of their vote…
- Communication Privacy Management Theory(also: CPM, CPM Theory)
- A communication theory developed by Sandra Petronio that treats private information as something people own and collectively manage through negotiated rules about boundaries, co-ownership, and turbulence (boundary violations). CPM is widely used to analyse online…
- Consent(also: Informed Consent)
- Voluntary, informed, and revocable agreement by a person to a particular action or interaction involving them - whether that is sexual activity, data collection, medical treatment, research participation, or interaction with an automated system. In accessibility contexts,…
- Contextual Integrity(also: CI, Contextual Privacy)
- A privacy framework developed by Helen Nissenbaum that defines privacy not as secrecy but as the appropriate flow of information according to context-specific norms. According to contextual integrity, privacy is violated when information flows deviate from the norms governing a…
- Cookie Notice(also: Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent Banner, Cookie Popup)
- A user interface element that appears on websites to inform visitors about the use of cookies and other tracking technologies, typically requesting consent to store data on their device. Cookie notices are required under privacy regulations like GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive.…
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