Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in Global South accessibility.
- Community Health Worker (CHW, Lay Health Worker)
- A frontline healthcare provider who is a trusted member of the community they serve and who delivers basic health services, education, and referrals, typically with limited formal training. Community …
- Context-Appropriate Technology (Appropriate Technology, Context-Appropriate AT)
- Technology, particularly assistive technology, that is designed or selected to fit the specific social, economic, cultural, and environmental context in which it will be used. Context-appropriate tech…
- 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…
- Indian Language Accessibility (Indic Language Accessibility)
- The set of challenges and solutions involved in making digital technology accessible to people with disabilities who use Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and others. In…
- Infrastructural precarity (Digital infrastructure barriers)
- The condition of unreliable, inconsistent, or inadequate technological infrastructure that shapes and constrains how people — particularly disabled people and those in the Global South — can access an…
- Interactive Voice Response (IVR, Voice Response System)
- A telephony technology that allows users to interact with automated systems using voice commands or keypad input. IVR systems are particularly valuable for accessibility in low-income settings because…
- Spoken Web (World Wide Telecom Web, WWTW, Telecom Web)
- An alternative web paradigm designed for people in developing regions who are excluded from the traditional World Wide Web by illiteracy, unaffordability, or lack of locally relevant content. In the S…
- Village Health Volunteer (VHV, Health Volunteer, Mor Prom)
- A locally-recruited lay community health worker who serves as a trusted bridge between formal healthcare services and households in rural or underserved areas. In Thailand, VHVs are trained and coordi…