Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Affordable Assistive Technology (Low-Cost AT, Frugal Assistive Technology)
- Assistive devices and technologies designed to be financially accessible to people with disabilities in low-resource settings, where the cost of commercially available assistive technology from the Gl…
- Cultural Taxation (Minority Tax, Identity Taxation)
- The unpaid or under-recognised additional labour expected of faculty and staff from marginalised groups — including Deaf, disabled, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ individuals — to serve as cultural ambassadors, me…
- Diagnostic Bias (Assessment Bias)
- Systematic errors in the diagnostic process that lead to certain groups being more or less likely to receive a particular diagnosis based on characteristics unrelated to the condition itself, such as …
- Digital Divide (Digital Gap, Digital Inequality)
- The gap between people who have effective access to digital technologies and those who do not, encompassing differences in internet connectivity, device ownership, digital skills, and the ability to m…
- Global South (Developing World, Majority World)
- A term referring broadly to countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania that have been historically marginalized in global economic and political systems. In accessibility research, the Glob…
- Global South Accessibility (Accessibility in Low-Resource Settings, Developing World Accessibility)
- The study and practice of making technology, environments, and services accessible to people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. Over 80% of the world's one billion people with disa…
- Underdiagnosis (Missed Diagnosis)
- A pattern where a medical condition goes unrecognized and undiagnosed in a significant portion of the affected population. ADHD is substantially underdiagnosed in women, adults, and people of color du…
- Weed-Out Course (Gateway Course, Gatekeeper Course, Barrier Course)
- A course in higher education, typically in STEM fields, that is perceived as intentionally rigorous to filter out students who are deemed unlikely to succeed in a given discipline. Courses like organi…