Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in critical studies.
- Autism Industrial Complex (AIC)
- A term coined by Alicia Broderick and Robin Roscigno to describe the commercial ecosystem that treats autism as a commodity, establishing it as a normative cultural narrative that necessitates interve…
- Discourse Analysis (Critical Discourse Analysis, CDA)
- A research methodology that examines how language constructs meaning, power relations, identities, and social realities. Critical discourse analysis specifically investigates how language in texts, me…
- Epistemic Violence (Epistemic Injustice)
- The systematic marginalization, dismissal, or overriding of certain groups' knowledge, experiences, and ways of understanding the world. In disability contexts, epistemic violence occurs when non-disa…
- Technocapitalist Disability Rhetoric
- A term describing the marketing and promotional language used by technology companies that recasts lived disability experience into marketable suffering and positions technological products as purchas…