Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
34 results found in employment.
- Accessible Onboarding (Inclusive Onboarding)
- The process of integrating new employees into an organization in a way that is fully accessible to people with disabilities, encompassing all required documentation, training, system access, and orien…
- Accessible Workplace (Inclusive Workplace, Accessible Work Environment)
- A work environment—including its physical spaces, digital tools, and organizational practices—designed to be usable by all employees regardless of ability or age. In the digital context, an accessible…
- Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT, MTurk, Mechanical Turk)
- A crowdsourcing marketplace operated by Amazon that enables individuals and businesses to distribute tasks (called Human Intelligence Tasks or HITs) to a distributed workforce who complete them remote…
- Autism Employment Gap (Autism Unemployment, Neurodiversity Employment Gap)
- The significant disparity in employment rates between autistic adults and the general population. Research indicates only 10-50% of autistic individuals are employed, with just 15-20% in full-time pos…
- Career Development Learning (CDL, Career Readiness Education)
- Educational activities and resources that develop students' capabilities for transitioning from higher education to employment, including self-awareness, opportunity awareness, decision-making, and tr…
- Collaborative Robot (Cobot, Co-Robot)
- A robot designed to work alongside humans in shared workspaces, as opposed to traditional industrial robots that operate in isolation. Cobots are of particular interest for workplace inclusion because…
- Crowd Work (Crowdwork, Microtask Work, Gig Work)
- A form of employment in which tasks are distributed to a large pool of online workers through digital platforms, typically broken into small, discrete units that can be completed independently and rem…
- Digital Equity (Digital Equality)
- The condition in which all individuals and communities have equal access to, use of, and ability to benefit from digital technologies, regardless of disability, socioeconomic status, geographic locati…
- Disability Divide (Digital Disability Divide)
- The sociotechnical disparity between people with and without disabilities in terms of access to, use of, and benefits from digital technologies. While digitalization has transformed work, education, a…
- Disability Employment Gap (Employment Disparity)
- The significant difference in employment rates between people with and without disabilities. Statistics consistently show that people with disabilities are employed at roughly half the rate of non-dis…
- E-Recruiting (Electronic Recruiting, Online Recruiting, Digital Recruitment)
- The use of web-based tools and platforms for job posting, candidate sourcing, application submission, and hiring management. E-recruiting systems include job search websites, online application portal…
- Employee Onboarding Accessibility (Accessible Onboarding, Inclusive Onboarding)
- The practice of ensuring that the employee onboarding process — including signing contracts, completing HR forms, accessing web portals, and orientation activities — is fully accessible to people with…
- Employment Accessibility (Workplace Accessibility, Job Accessibility, Accessible Employment)
- The broad concept of ensuring that all aspects of finding, applying for, interviewing for, and performing a job are accessible to people with disabilities. Employment accessibility encompasses accessi…
- Human Intelligence Task (HIT)
- A unit of work on a crowdsourcing platform, particularly Amazon Mechanical Turk, that requires human judgment to complete. HITs typically involve tasks that are difficult for computers but straightfor…
- Inclusive Employability (Inclusive Employment Practices, Disability-Inclusive Employment)
- An approach to employment preparation, recruitment, and workplace practices that intentionally addresses the barriers faced by people from equity groups, including people with disabilities, in accessi…
- Invisible labor (Access labor, Hidden work)
- The additional, often unrecognized effort that people with disabilities must invest to create and maintain access in environments not designed for them. In workplace contexts, invisible labor includes…
- Job Coach (Employment Specialist, Vocational Coach, Work Coach)
- A professional who provides on-site support and training to help people with disabilities succeed in competitive employment settings. Job coaches assist with learning job tasks, developing workplace s…
- Job Coaching (Employment Coaching, Workplace Coaching)
- Individualized, on-site or remote support provided to workers with disabilities to help them learn job tasks, develop workplace skills, navigate social interactions, and maintain employment. Job coach…
- Labour Force Participation (Workforce Participation, Employment Participation Rate)
- The proportion of a population that is either employed or actively seeking employment. In accessibility contexts, labour force participation rates reveal significant disparities: in Norway, for exampl…
- Micro-task (Microtask, HIT, Human Intelligence Task)
- A small, self-contained unit of work that can be completed independently, typically in seconds to minutes, often distributed through crowdsourcing platforms. In accessibility contexts, micro-tasks suc…