Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
37 results found in Inclusion.
- Ableist microaggression (Disability microaggression, Casual ableism)
- A subtle, often unintentional comment, question, or behavior that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative assumptions about disability. Examples include unsolicited compliments on "bravery" for …
- Aesthetic Experience (Aesthetic Need, Aesthetic Accessibility)
- The emotional, sensory, and imaginative enjoyment people derive from environments, art, media, and everyday scenes - distinct from functional or task-oriented information. Aesthetic accessibility argu…
- Allyship (Accessibility Allyship, Disability Allyship)
- The practice of non-disabled people (or people without a specific disability) actively supporting disabled colleagues by advocating for accessibility, following accommodation norms, and helping identi…
- Audio game (Audiogame, Sound-based game, Accessible game)
- A digital game designed to be played primarily or entirely through audio, without requiring visual information. Audio games use spatial sound, earcons, music, voice narration, and other auditory cues …
- Brave Space
- A community or environment where people are encouraged to step outside their comfort zones, approach their limits, and try new things while being supported by those around them — as opposed to a "safe…
- Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
- A term of art, promoted heavily by the U.S. National Science Foundation and professional societies such as ACM, referring to concerted efforts to increase the participation of groups that are historic…
- Civic Participation (Civic Engagement)
- Civic participation encompasses the activities through which individuals engage in the democratic process and public life, including voting, attending public meetings, contacting elected officials, an…
- Cultural Mediator (Museum Mediator, Cultural Facilitator)
- A professional who facilitates meaningful engagement between cultural institutions (such as museums, galleries, or heritage sites) and visitors, particularly those from diverse or marginalised backgro…
- Digital literacy (Digital competence, Technology literacy)
- The ability to find, evaluate, use, create, and communicate information using digital technologies, encompassing both technical skills (operating devices, using software) and critical thinking (evalua…
- Disability disclosure (Self-disclosure)
- The process by which a person with a disability chooses to reveal information about their condition to others, whether in the workplace, social settings, or digital environments. Disclosure decisions …
- Functional Classification (Sport Classification, Player Classification)
- A system used in adaptive and Paralympic sports to group athletes into categories based on their physical functional abilities rather than their specific medical diagnosis. In wheelchair basketball, p…
- Global South accessibility (Accessibility in developing countries, Majority world accessibility)
- The study and practice of accessibility in countries of the Global South (Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America), where over 80% of people with disabilities live. Accessibility in these cont…
- Inclusive avatar (Disability-representative avatar)
- A digital self-representation in virtual environments that includes disability signifiers such as wheelchairs, prosthetics, hearing aids, canes, or visual metaphors for invisible conditions. Inclusive…
- Information asymmetry (Information gap, Information lag)
- In accessibility contexts, the unequal access to timely, relevant information experienced by disabled people compared to non-disabled peers, caused by inaccessible formats, platforms, and communicatio…
- Interdependence (Relational autonomy)
- A framework in disability studies that recognises all people — disabled and non-disabled — as fundamentally reliant on others and on social infrastructure, challenging the Western ideal of individual …
- Invisible disability (Hidden disability, Non-visible disability, Non-apparent disability)
- A disability that is not immediately apparent to others by observation, including conditions such as chronic pain, ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, epilepsy, and many cognitive or neurological condi…
- K-12 Education (K-12, Primary and Secondary Education, K through 12)
- The span of publicly supported education from kindergarten through 12th grade (approximately ages 5-18), encompassing primary and secondary schooling. In accessibility contexts, K-12 education is a cr…
- Misfitting
- A concept from disability studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson describing the incongruent relationship between a body and its environment — when the world is not designed to accommodate a particu…
- Mixed-Visual Group (Mixed visual ability group, Mixed-visual ability group)
- A group whose members include both blind or low-vision and sighted participants. The term is used in accessibility research on group activities (museum tours, classrooms, family outings, workplace mee…
- Multimodal redundancy (Redundant coding, Multi-sensory design)
- A design principle in which the same information is conveyed through multiple sensory channels simultaneously — such as visual, tactile, auditory, and textual — so that users can access it through whi…