Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
49 results found in disability theory.
- Selective Engagement
- A strategy where a person chooses to interact only with stakeholders, services, or platforms that are known to be safe and supportive, reducing exposure to adversarial or discriminatory environments. …
- Skilled Vision (Vernacular Vision, Professional Vision)
- Skilled vision is a concept from visual culture and anthropology that describes the process of learning to see and interpret visual information in specialized ways within a particular community of pra…
- Social Model of Disability (Social Construction of Disability)
- A framework that locates disability not in an individual's body or mind but in the barriers created by society — including physical environments, attitudes, policies, and systems that exclude people w…
- Social Model of Disability (social model, barriers model)
- A framework that distinguishes between impairment (a physical, sensory, or cognitive difference) and disability (the social barriers and exclusion that result from society not accommodating that diffe…
- Stable Systems of Access
- Access ecosystems where a disabled person can reliably anticipate available resources, plan long-term, and accumulate stability over time. In a stable system, stakeholders are predictable, resources a…
- Strengths-Based Approach (Asset-Based Approach, Strengths-Based Practice)
- An approach that focuses on identifying and building upon individuals' existing abilities, interests, and resources rather than concentrating on deficits and limitations. In disability and accessibili…
- Systems of Access
- A conceptual framework describing the dynamic network of people, institutions, environments, and resources that disabled people navigate to meet their needs. Unlike linear models of accessibility that…
- 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…
- Unstable Systems of Access
- Access ecosystems characterized by unpredictability, where resources and stakeholder relationships may shift without warning, forcing reactive decision-making and increasing risk. In unstable systems,…