Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in Global accessibility.
- Data Colonialism
- A critical framework, advanced by Couldry and Mejias (2019) and others, that describes how contemporary data extraction practices replicate historical patterns of colonialism — appropriating resources…
- Decolonial Learning (Decolonial Design Practice)
- A preparatory and ongoing phase in community-based research in which researchers — typically affiliated with Global North institutions or corporations — work to understand the historical, political, a…
- Low-Resource Sign Language
- A sign language for which standardised corpora, training data, technical infrastructure, and institutional support are limited compared to 'high-resource' sign languages like American Sign Language (A…
- 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…
- PC-Talker (PCTalker)
- A Windows screen reader developed by the Japanese company KGS Corporation, widely used by blind and low-vision users in Japan. PC-Talker provides speech output for Windows applications and the web and…