Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
42 results found in Social Accessibility.
- Ageism (Age Discrimination, Age Bias)
- Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination against people based on their age, most commonly directed at older adults. Ageism manifests at individual, institutional, and societal levels through assump…
- Autistic Sociality (Autistic Social Interaction, Atypical Sociality)
- The distinct ways in which autistic people form social connections, build community, and engage in relationships — which differ from neurotypical social norms but are not deficient. Autistic sociality…
- Chrononormativity (Temporal Normativity)
- The way institutions impose normative temporal expectations—standardized timelines, schedules, and paces of development—that shape how bodies and lives are organized and evaluated. In assistive techno…
- 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…
- Co-Regulation (Coregulation)
- Co-regulation is the process by which one person helps another manage their emotional or physiological state, through presence, calming behaviours, modelling coping strategies, or environmental adjust…
- Collaborative Accessibility Authoring (Collaborative Authoring, Crowdsourced Accessibility)
- An approach to web accessibility in which a community of volunteers collaboratively creates, maintains, and shares accessibility fixes for websites they do not own or control. Rather than relying sole…
- Community Care (Community-Based Care, Care in the Community)
- A policy and practice model in which health and social care services are provided to disabled and elderly people in their own homes or local communities rather than in residential institutions. Commun…
- Compromised Agency
- A concept from science and technology studies describing situations where an individual's capacity to make meaningful choices is structurally constrained by systemic forces beyond their control, even …
- Digital Divide (Digital Gap, Technology Gap)
- The gap between individuals, households, or communities that have access to modern information and communication technologies and those that do not, or between those with the skills to use them effect…
- Digital Inclusion (Digital Equity, e-Inclusion)
- The principle and practice of ensuring that all individuals and communities have access to and can effectively use information and communication technologies. Digital inclusion encompasses three key d…
- Digital Storytelling (Multimedia Storytelling, Personal Digital Narrative)
- The use of digital media — including photographs, video clips, audio recordings, and text — to create and share personal narratives. In the context of accessibility and AAC, digital storytelling offer…
- Disability Disclosure (Disclosure)
- The act of revealing information about one's disability to others, whether voluntarily or through necessity. Disclosure decisions are complex, involving considerations of privacy, safety, accommodatio…
- Emotional Safety (Psychological Safety)
- A condition in which individuals feel secure enough to participate, take risks, and make mistakes without fear of embarrassment, judgment, or social stigma. In accessible learning environments, emotio…
- Grey Digital Divide (Gray Digital Divide, Age-Related Digital Divide)
- The gap in technology adoption, usage, and digital skills between older adults and younger populations. While older adults may be interested in using technology for communication, health management, a…
- Human Cooperation (Accessibility) (Cooperative Shared Control)
- In the context of accessible gaming and assistive technology, human cooperation refers to arrangements in which a disabled user (the pilot) and another person (the copilot) jointly operate a single sy…
- Institutional Gatekeeping (Systemic Gatekeeping)
- The practices through which institutions such as insurance companies, healthcare providers, school districts, and government agencies control access to assistive technology and disability services by …
- Interactional Synchrony
- The coordinated, often unconscious alignment of conversational partners' body postures, gestures, gaze, vocal rhythm, and facial expressions during social interaction. Research in social psychology an…
- Intergenerational Communication (Cross-generational Communication)
- Communication between people of different generations, particularly between older adults and younger family members or caregivers, which can be complicated by differing expectations, technology litera…
- Internalized Ageism (Self-Directed Ageism)
- The process by which older adults absorb and accept negative societal stereotypes about aging, applying these beliefs to themselves and their peers. Internalized ageism can lead older adults to undere…
- Joint Awareness
- Joint awareness is a shared understanding between two or more people about a condition, situation, or state - for example, a child's sensory triggers known to both the child and their parent, or a chr…