Content Credential
The preferred nontechnical term for a C2PA Manifest containing signed provenance assertions bound to an asset.
What Content Credential does not show
It can show tamper-evident history but not whether the content is truthful.
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Related terms in Accessibility and provenance
What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
Keyboard accessibility · Focus order · Focus indicator · ARIA · Accessible description · Color contrast · Reduced motion · Captions · Audio description · Status message · C2PA assertion · C2PA claim · Claim signature · Manifest store · Content binding · Hard binding · Soft binding · Ingredient · Trust list · landmark · contrast ratio
Questions about Content Credential
What is Content Credential?
The preferred nontechnical term for a C2PA Manifest containing signed provenance assertions bound to an asset.
What does Content Credential not show or guarantee?
It can show tamper-evident history but not whether the content is truthful.
Which area of the glossary does Content Credential belong to?
Accessibility and provenance: What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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