Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in concepts.
- Algorithmic Decision-Making (ADM, Automated decision-making)
- The use of software systems — from rule-based logic to machine learning models — to make or substantially inform decisions that affect individuals, such as eligibility for benefits, credit, housing, o…
- Digital by Default (Digital-first, Digital-only)
- A public-sector service design strategy, formalised in the UK from 2012, that treats online channels as the primary (and often sole) means of accessing government services, with phone and in-person su…
- Eligibility Theatre
- A term coined by Curtis et al. (2026) to describe the performance of visible, narrowly-framed disability that claimants are forced to stage in order to satisfy bureaucratic and algorithmic expectation…
- Help-Seeking (Help seeking behavior)
- The deliberate process of asking for, searching for, or otherwise obtaining assistance to complete a task, learn a feature, or resolve a breakdown. In accessibility contexts, help-seeking is often sha…
- Hostile Design (Hostile architecture, Deterrent design)
- A design orientation in which systems — physical, digital, or bureaucratic — are intentionally configured to deter use, discourage certain populations, or reduce uptake, rather than to enable access. …
- Queer-crip (Queer-crip theory, Queer crip)
- A theoretical lens combining queer theory and crip theory to examine how queerness and disability co-produce experiences of marginalisation, care, and resistance. Queer-crip perspectives critique comp…
- Relational Accessibility (Relational Access)
- An approach to accessibility that treats access as something co-constructed between people in everyday life, rather than a property of an individual user, tool, or environment. Relational accessibilit…
- STEAM (STEAM education)
- An extension of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educational framework that explicitly integrates the Arts (design, music, visual art, storytelling, humanities). STEAM is o…
- Sensory Sensitivities (Sensory sensitivity, Sensory processing differences)
- Heightened or reduced responses to everyday sensory input — noise, light, glare, texture, smell, temperature, or movement — that significantly affect attention, regulation, comfort, and participation.…
- Street Level Imagery (Street view imagery, Panoramic street imagery)
- Geo-referenced 360-degree panoramic photography captured from vehicles or pedestrians at street level, made widely available through services like Google Street View and Apple Maps Look Around. Street…
- Triple Jeopardy
- A framework describing the compounded discrimination faced by individuals who hold three intersecting marginalised identities — in Bowleg et al.'s original formulation, Black lesbians navigating racis…