Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
19 results found in Accessibility Principles.
- Accessibility Allyship (Disability Allyship, A11y Allyship)
- The practice of non-disabled individuals actively supporting and advocating for people with disabilities by learning about accessibility barriers, amplifying disabled voices, and taking concrete actio…
- Age-Sensitive Design (Age-Sensitive Creative AI Mediation)
- A design stance that treats age-related physical, cognitive, and digital-literacy characteristics as first-class inputs to the system design process rather than as edge cases to be handled after the f…
- Capability Sensitive Design
- A design approach, proposed by Ilse Oosterlaken, that takes human diversity morally seriously and evaluates technologies by how they actually expand or constrain the real opportunities (capabilities) …
- Collective Communication Access (CCA)
- A framework developed by McDonnell et al. (2023) that reconceptualises communication access as a shared, co-constructed practice distributed across everyone involved in an interaction, rather than as …
- Disability Awareness (Disability Awareness Training)
- The understanding and recognition of the experiences, challenges, and rights of people with disabilities. Disability awareness encompasses knowledge of different types of disabilities, the barriers (p…
- Disability Interaction (DIX)
- A challenge-based approach and manifesto for creating a more inclusive world where disability can be an inspiration for innovation and creativity, and where inclusion is the norm. Proposed by Catherin…
- Error Tolerance (Error Prevention, Forgiveness)
- A design principle requiring that systems anticipate, prevent, and gracefully handle user errors. In accessible design, error tolerance means providing clear validation messages, allowing users to und…
- Functional Equivalency (Functional Equivalence, Communication Equivalence)
- The principle that accommodations and alternative formats should provide people with disabilities an experience that is comparable in quality, timeliness, and completeness to that of non-disabled user…
- Procedural Accessibility
- An aspect of web accessibility that addresses the consistency and clarity of interaction sequences and workflows within digital systems. Procedural accessibility ensures that similar services follow t…
- Relational Sovereignty
- A framework proposed by Jang, Carrington and Begel (2026) as a new goal (telos) for socially assistive technology, defined as the recognised authority of a disabled person to choose their relational m…
- Semantic Accessibility
- An approach to web accessibility that focuses on the predictability and consistency of user interface behavior, layout, and interaction patterns rather than the underlying code. Semantic accessibility…
- Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities (SIIDs, Situationally Induced Impairments and Disabilities, Situation-Induced Disabilities)
- An accessibility framework, introduced by Sears et al., that describes how everyday environments and tasks can temporarily impose the same kinds of barriers on non-disabled users that permanent impair…
- Skeuomorphic Design (Skeuomorphism)
- A design approach in which digital interface elements are made to resemble their real-world physical counterparts in appearance and behavior. For example, a digital notepad might have lined paper text…
- Syntactic Accessibility (Technical Accessibility)
- The dimension of web accessibility concerned with the correctness of code sent to the browser and assistive technologies. Syntactic accessibility focuses on whether HTML markup, ARIA attributes, and o…
- Text Alternatives (Text Alternative, Text Equivalent)
- WCAG 2.1 Guideline 1.1 and success criterion 1.1.1 require that all non-text content (images, charts, audio, video, form controls, etc.) have a text alternative serving the equivalent purpose. Text al…
- Universal Access (Universal Accessibility)
- The principle and practice of designing products, environments, programs, and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized desig…
- Universal Accessibility (Accessibility for All)
- A broad approach to accessibility that goes beyond technical compliance with specific disability-focused guidelines to encompass the needs of all users regardless of age, experience, cultural backgrou…
- User Empowerment (Design for User Empowerment)
- A design philosophy that prioritizes giving users, particularly people with disabilities, the agency and tools to solve their own problems, customize their experiences, and participate as active creat…
- Wholeness
- Wholeness is a core principle of the 10 Principles of Disability Justice articulated by Sins Invalid: the recognition that 'each person is full of history and life experience' and has inherent worth o…