Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in discrimination.
- Colorism (Skin Tone Bias, Shadeism)
- Colorism is a form of discrimination in which people are treated differently based on the shade of their skin tone, typically favoring lighter skin over darker skin within and across racial groups. In…
- Direct Discrimination
- A form of unlawful discrimination where a person is treated less favorably than others because of a protected characteristic such as disability, race, or sex. Under UK and EU equality law, direct disc…
- Indirect Discrimination (Disparate Impact)
- A form of unlawful discrimination where a policy, criterion, or practice that appears neutral on its face disproportionately disadvantages people with a protected characteristic. Unlike direct discrim…
- Protected Characteristic (Protected Class, Protected Ground)
- A personal attribute that is protected from discrimination under equality legislation. Under the UK Equality Act 2010, the nine protected characteristics are: age, disability, gender reassignment, mar…
- Transphobia (Anti-Transgender Prejudice, Anti-Trans Bias)
- Transphobia refers to prejudice, discrimination, and hostility directed at people who are transgender, non-binary, or whose gender identity or expression differs from their sex assigned at birth. In d…