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…