Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in health and wellness.
- Accessible Fitness Technology (Inclusive Exercise Technology, Adaptive Fitness Tech)
- Technologies designed to enable people with disabilities to engage in physical exercise independently and effectively. Accessible fitness technology spans audio-based exercise games, haptic workout gu…
- Body Awareness (Body Schema, Body Image)
- The understanding of one's own body including its structure, posture, position in space, and relationship to the environment. Body awareness encompasses both the physical sense of where body parts are…
- Exercise Accessibility (Fitness Accessibility, Accessible Physical Activity)
- The design of exercise environments, equipment, programs, and technologies to be usable by people with disabilities. Exercise accessibility encompasses both physical spaces (accessible gyms, adapted t…
- Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA)
- A classification of exercise intensity used in public health guidelines that encompasses physical activity raising heart rate to 60-80% or more of heart rate reserve. MVPA is the threshold recommended…