Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
9 results found in creative arts.
- Adaptive Musical Instrument (Accessible Musical Instrument, Adapted Instrument)
- A musical instrument that has been modified or purpose-built to enable people with disabilities to play music. Adaptive musical instruments may use alternative input methods such as head movement, bre…
- Aesthetic Blindness
- Aesthetic blindness is a myth and misconception rooted in ableism that assumes blind people cannot perceive, appreciate, or create beauty because beauty is rendered solely through visual means. This a…
- Artistic Ownership (Creative Ownership, Authorial Agency)
- The sense of being the authentic creator of one's own artwork, encompassing both the process and the final product. For digital artists with disabilities, artistic ownership is complicated by reliance…
- Creativity Support Tools (CST, Creative Support Software)
- Creativity support tools (CSTs) are software applications and systems designed to help people engage in creative activities such as writing, drawing, music production, photography, video editing, grap…
- Digital Art Accessibility (Accessible Digital Art Tools)
- The design and availability of digital creative tools—including drawing software, graphic input devices, and editing platforms—that can be effectively used by artists with disabilities. Key accessibil…
- Disability Aesthetics
- A discourse related to reclaiming the visibility of disability in mainstream art, particularly visual and performance arts, through the depiction of disabled bodies as both beautiful and inspiring. Un…
- Disability Art (Disability Arts)
- Artistic work created by disabled artists that is specifically informed by their experience of disability, often rooted in the social dynamics of identity, disability culture, and the struggle for dis…
- Music Accessibility (Accessible Music, Musical Accessibility)
- The practice of making musical experiences — including listening, performing, composing, and learning — available to people with disabilities. Music accessibility encompasses a wide range of approache…
- Tactile Art (Touch Art, Haptic Art)
- Pictures, illustrations, sculptures, and multimodal compositions that are created to be accessible through the sense of touch, either crafted intentionally for touch-focused experiences or made access…