Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in social model of disability.
- Advocacy Labor (Accessibility Advocacy Labor, Corrective Labor)
- The unpaid effort that disabled people must expend to correct biased, ableist, or inaccessible technology outputs and advocate for better representations of disability. In the context of generative AI…
- Disability Culture (Crip Culture)
- Disability culture encompasses the shared experiences, values, art, language, humor, and traditions that have developed among people with disabilities as a distinct social group. It includes disabilit…
- Disablism (Disability Discrimination)
- Discriminatory, oppressive, or abusive behaviour directed at people because of their disability, encompassing both individual acts of prejudice and systemic societal barriers. Coined by the Union of P…
- Informal Caregiver (Family Caregiver, Unpaid Caregiver)
- A person, typically a family member, friend, or neighbor, who provides unpaid assistance to someone with a disability, chronic illness, or age-related needs. Informal caregivers often help with daily …
- Interpersonal Accessibility (Social Access)
- The dimension of accessibility that depends on social interactions and communication between people rather than on physical infrastructure or digital technology alone. Interpersonal accessibility enco…
- Unidirectional Support (One-Way Support, Asymmetric Support)
- A pattern of assistance in which support flows in only one direction—from a helper to a recipient—without opportunities for feedback, mutual contribution, or reciprocal engagement. In disability conte…
- Volunteer-Driven Accessibility (Community-Driven Accessibility)
- Accessibility solutions that depend on the unpaid labor of volunteers rather than being built into platforms or services by design. Examples include volunteer-created accessible e-newspapers for blind…