Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
183 results found in research methods.
- Community Sustainability (Research Sustainability)
- The principle that research practices should not deplete, harm, or overburden the communities from which participants are recruited. In accessibility research, community sustainability requires consid…
- Community-Based Design (Community-Based Participatory Design, CBPD)
- A design approach that situates the design process within a specific community, engaging community members as active participants and co-creators rather than passive research subjects. Unlike lab-base…
- Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR, Community-based participatory design)
- A research orientation in which academic researchers and community members collaborate as equal partners throughout the full research cycle — problem definition, design, data collection, analysis, and…
- Community-Based Research (Community-Based Participatory Research, CBPR)
- A research approach that centers the knowledge, priorities, and participation of the community being studied, treating community members as equal partners rather than research subjects. In disability …
- Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT)
- A qualitative research methodology developed by Kathy Charmaz that adapts classic grounded theory by acknowledging that the researcher's theoretical commitments and lived experience shape the categori…
- Content Analysis
- A systematic research methodology used to analyze and categorize communication artifacts such as text, video, images, or audio recordings. In accessibility research, content analysis is frequently app…
- Contextual Inquiry (CI, Contextual Interview)
- A user research method in which a researcher observes and interviews a participant in their natural work or living environment while they perform their typical tasks. The researcher adopts an apprenti…
- Convenience Sampling (Availability Sampling, Accidental Sampling)
- A non-probability sampling method in which participants are selected based on their availability and willingness to participate rather than through systematic selection criteria. In accessibility rese…
- Conversation Analysis (CA)
- A qualitative research methodology that studies the sequential organization and interactional dynamics of naturally occurring talk and social interaction. Conversation analysis examines fine-grained d…
- Cooperative Inquiry (Co-Inquiry)
- A participatory design methodology that involves children as full design partners throughout the technology development process, from initial brainstorming through prototyping and evaluation. Develope…
- Crip Epistemology (Cripistemology)
- A framework for understanding how disability produces distinct forms of knowledge that challenge dominant, ableist ways of knowing. Rooted in crip theory and disability studies, crip epistemologies re…
- Cripepistemology (Crip knowledge, Disabled knowledge)
- A framework recognizing that disability itself is a valuable way of knowing about the world — that disabled people acquire deep, embodied knowledge from their experiences navigating inaccessible envir…
- Critical Autoethnography
- A qualitative research method that combines personal narrative with critical analysis of systems of power, privilege, and oppression. Unlike traditional autoethnography, the critical variant explicitl…
- Critical Design (Critical Design Framework, Design Through Critique)
- A research through design methodology that foregrounds the ethics of design practice, reveals potentially hidden agendas and values, and explores alternative design values. In accessibility research, …
- Critical Race Theory (CRT)
- Critical Race Theory is a scholarly framework originating in legal studies that examines how laws, policies, and institutions perpetuate racial inequality, even in the absence of overt individual raci…
- Cross-Ability Collaboration (Mixed-Ability Collaboration, Cross-Disability Collaboration)
- Collaboration between people with different abilities, typically involving a person with a disability working alongside someone without that disability. In accessibility research, cross-ability collab…
- Cross-Disability Perspective (Cross-Disability Approach, Pan-Disability Research)
- A research or design approach that examines accessibility across multiple disability types rather than focusing on a single condition. Cross-disability perspectives recognize that people with differen…
- Cross-Validation (K-Fold Cross-Validation, Stratified Cross-Validation)
- A statistical method for evaluating machine learning models by splitting data into multiple subsets (folds), training the model on some folds and testing on the remaining ones, then rotating through a…
- Cross-language Research (Cross-linguistic Research, Multilingual Research)
- Research conducted across different languages, requiring translation and interpretation to bridge communication between researchers and participants who do not share a common language. In accessibilit…
- Cross-syndrome comparison (Cross-disability comparison)
- A research methodology that evaluates a technology or intervention with participants from multiple disability groups to determine whether findings and design principles generalize across conditions. C…