Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
86 results found in disability rights.
- ADA Transition Plan (ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan, Accessibility Transition Plan)
- A document required under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that outlines how a public entity will make its programs, services, activities, and facilities accessible to people with…
- AI Recourse (Algorithmic Recourse, AI Appeal Mechanism)
- The ability of individuals negatively affected by AI-driven decisions to challenge, appeal, or seek correction of those decisions. For people with disabilities, AI recourse is particularly critical be…
- Ability Bias (Ability-Based Bias, Disability Bias)
- A form of social bias encoded in artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, that reflects stereotypical or discriminatory assumptions about people with disabilities. Ability …
- Access Labor (Accommodation Labor, Disability Labor)
- The uncompensated work that disabled people must perform to secure, maintain, and manage their own accessibility accommodations within systems not designed for them. Access labor includes navigating b…
- Accessibility Advocacy (Accessibility Activism, A11y Advocacy)
- The practice of promoting, educating others about, and pushing for the adoption of accessible practices in digital and physical environments. In online spaces, accessibility advocacy often falls dispr…
- Accessibility Workaround (A11y Workaround, Assistive Workaround)
- An alternative method, process, or tool that people with disabilities develop or adopt to accomplish tasks that are blocked by inaccessible design. Workarounds represent the hidden labor that disabled…
- Accommodation (Reasonable Accommodation, Academic Accommodation, Disability Accommodation)
- A modification, adjustment, or support provided to enable a person with a disability to participate equally in education, employment, or public services. In the United States, accommodations are manda…
- Administrative Burden (Bureaucratic Burden, Process Burden)
- The cumulative effort, time, stress, and negative impacts that result from navigating administrative processes such as applying for benefits, gaining medical evidence, completing forms, and interactin…
- Affirmative Model of Disability (Affirmation Model)
- A disability framework that goes beyond the social model by acknowledging disabled individuals's lived experiences and emphasizing their abilities, strengths, and unique perspectives rather than limit…
- Algorithmic Discrimination (AI Discrimination, Automated Discrimination)
- The systematic disadvantaging of specific groups through the operation of AI-driven systems, whether intentional or emergent. For people with disabilities, algorithmic discrimination occurs across man…
- Algorithmic bias (AI bias, Machine learning bias, Algorithmic discrimination)
- Systematic and unfair errors in the outputs of automated decision-making systems that disadvantage particular groups of people. For people with disabilities, algorithmic bias arises from underrepresen…
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, ADA 1990)
- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is landmark US civil rights legislation enacted in 1990 that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, inclu…
- Assistive use exception (Assistive use legal exception, Assistive purpose exception)
- A proposed legal framework that would permit the use of always-on sensing technologies (such as wearable cameras or microphones) for assistive purposes in contexts where recording is otherwise prohibi…
- Autism Self-Advocacy (Autistic Self-Advocacy, Autism Rights Movement)
- A movement led by autistic individuals who advocate for their own rights, autonomy, and inclusion in decisions that affect their lives. Autism self-advocacy challenges the dominance of non-autistic pa…
- Autistic Agency (Autistic Self-Determination, Autistic Autonomy)
- The capacity of autistic individuals to make choices, express preferences, direct their own lives, and participate meaningfully in decisions that affect them. Research on autistic agency in technology…
- Bodily Autonomy
- The right of individuals to make decisions about their own bodies, including how they use their bodies for work, what medical treatments they receive, and how they manage their physical and mental hea…
- Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR, Participatory Action Research)
- A research methodology that creates equitable partnerships between researchers and community members throughout the entire research process, from defining research questions to disseminating findings.…
- Conversational Agency (Communicative Agency)
- An individual's capacity to express themselves and achieve their communicative goals within a conversation. Conversational agency encompasses not just the ability to transmit messages but also the abi…
- Crip Time
- A concept from disability studies and culture that recognizes disabled people often operate on different timescales than those imposed by ableist societal norms. Crip time encompasses the need for mor…
- Cripping (Crip practices)
- Practices or actions taken by disabled people to disrupt the status quo, flip ableist norms, and work toward a more accessible and just world. Cripping can involve material changes (hacking environmen…