Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
87 results found in disability.
- Social Communication Disorder (SCD, Pragmatic Language Impairment)
- A condition characterized by persistent difficulties with the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication. Individuals with social communication disorder struggle with using communication for soc…
- Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
- Damage to the spinal cord that results in loss of function, mobility, or sensation below the level of injury. Injuries are classified as complete (total loss of function below the injury) or incomplet…
- Symptom Fluctuation (Fluctuating Symptoms, Variable Symptoms, Good Days and Bad Days)
- The variation in symptom severity that people with chronic conditions or disabilities experience over time—sometimes within a single day. Symptom fluctuation means that a person's abilities and access…
- Toxic positivity (Forced positivity, Positive bypassing)
- Toxic positivity refers to the excessive promotion of optimistic or uplifting framing that dismisses, minimises, or erases negative emotions, suffering, and genuine hardship. In disability contexts, t…
- Upper Limb Motor Impairment (Upper Extremity Motor Disability, Hand and Arm Motor Impairment)
- A condition affecting movement, strength, coordination, or fine motor control in the hands, wrists, arms, or shoulders that impacts a person's ability to use standard computer input devices. Causes in…
- Visual Field Loss (Visual Field Deficit, VFL, Field Loss)
- A reduction in the area of vision that a person can see without moving their eyes or head. Visual field loss can affect any portion of the visual field — central, peripheral, or specific quadrants — a…
- Vitiligo
- A chronic skin condition in which patches of skin lose their pigment, resulting in irregular white or light areas on the body. Vitiligo can affect people of any skin tone but is more visually apparent…