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…