Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in policy and law.
- AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act)
- Canadian provincial legislation enacted in 2005 that sets out a roadmap to make Ontario fully accessible by 2025. AODA establishes mandatory accessibility standards across five areas: customer service…
- Criminalization
- The process by which behaviors, identities, or survival strategies are defined as criminal, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities including disabled people. In accessibility contexts, …
- Digital Surveillance (Online Surveillance)
- The monitoring, tracking, and collection of data about individuals through digital technologies, including by governments, corporations, and other institutions. For disabled people, digital surveillan…
- FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)
- U.S. federal legislation (2018) that amended Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make online platforms liable for user content that facilitates sex trafficking. While intended to combat t…