Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
13 results found in Accessibility Education.
- ACM Code of Ethics (ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct)
- A statement of professional ethics maintained by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that sets out the moral and professional responsibilities of computing practitioners. Significantly revis…
- Accessibility Engineer (Accessibility Engineering, A11y Engineer)
- A professional role focused on applying specific methodologies and methods to ensure that information and communication technology products and systems are accessible to people with disabilities throu…
- Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR, AIR-Austin)
- An annual web-development competition run by Knowbility (based in Austin, Texas) in which teams of developers are paired with non-profit clients and judged partly on the accessibility of the websites …
- Assistive Technology Curriculum (AT Curriculum, Adaptive Technology Curriculum, Accessibility Curriculum)
- An assistive technology curriculum is a structured educational programme that teaches the principles, design, evaluation, and implementation of technology aids for people with disabilities. Such curri…
- Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
- A term of art, promoted heavily by the U.S. National Science Foundation and professional societies such as ACM, referring to concerted efforts to increase the participation of groups that are historic…
- Computer Science Education (CS Education)
- The field of teaching and learning computing concepts, programming, and computational thinking across K-12, post-secondary, and professional contexts. CS education relies heavily on visual representat…
- Culturally Responsive Computing (Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Computing, Culturally Relevant Computing)
- A pedagogical approach to computing education that grounds instruction in learners' cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic realities rather than treating Global North curricula and technologies as u…
- Disability-Related Embodied Empathy from Existing Media (DREEM)
- A design pedagogy approach, introduced by Baltaxe-Admony et al., that does not translate specific aspects of disability theory into technology requirements but instead develops curricula that sensitis…
- Inclusive Thinking
- A design and problem-solving mindset that treats the needs of people with diverse abilities as a core consideration from the outset of a project, rather than as an afterthought or accommodation added …
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
- The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of the nine colleges of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), is the first and largest technical college in the world for students who are …
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU, REU Program, REU Supplement)
- A U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funding program that supports active research participation by undergraduate students in areas funded by NSF. REU awards fund either dedicated REU Sites — coho…
- Tiered Mentoring (Near-Peer Mentoring, Cascade Mentoring)
- A mentoring structure in which learners at several stages of development work together, so that each participant has a role model who is only one step ahead of them rather than many. In a tiered model…
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind)
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) is a non-profit organization based at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University, founded in 1999 and recognized internationally as a leading …