Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in Culture.
- 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…
- Bicultural Identity (Biculturalism)
- An identity characterised by active participation in and identification with two distinct cultural communities — in the Deaf context, navigating both Deaf culture (sign-language based, with its own no…
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory (CCAT, Kim's Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory)
- A communication theory, developed principally by Young Yun Kim, that describes how individuals adjust to an unfamiliar cultural environment over time through cycles of stress, adaptation, and growth. …
- Intergroup Contact Theory (ICT, Contact Hypothesis)
- A social-psychology theory, originating with Gordon Allport's 1954 contact hypothesis and elaborated by Pettigrew, Tropp, and others, which holds that positive, meaningful interaction between members …
- Material Culture
- The physical objects, artefacts, and environments that a community produces, uses, and inhabits, along with the meanings and practices embedded in them. In AI and accessibility research, material cult…
- Peer Culture
- Peer culture is the body of shared understandings, values, social norms, communication practices, and play conventions that children co-construct among themselves through daily interaction - distinct …
- Self-Disclosure Statement (SDS)
- A short first-person text in which a creator, researcher, or performer reveals personal information about their identity, background, training, and motivations for producing a piece of work. Self-disc…