Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Care Partner (Care Dyad, Caregiving Relationship)
- A term encompassing both the person providing care (caregiver) and the person receiving care (care receiver), emphasizing the collaborative and reciprocal nature of care relationships rather than a on…
- Care Staff (Care Worker, Direct Care Worker, Personal Care Aide, Care Assistant)
- Individuals who provide day-to-day personal care and support to residents in care facilities, including assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and mobility. Care staff are distinct from…
- Care Technology (Care robots, Robots for care, Assistive care technology)
- Technology designed to support caregiving activities in institutional or home settings, including robotic systems, monitoring devices, and digital tools that assist care workers and care recipients. C…
- Care Web (Care Web in Practice)
- A care web is a relational network of overlapping, often reciprocal support that sustains a disabled person's participation in everyday life, described by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in 'Care Wor…
- Career Development Learning (CDL, Career Readiness Education)
- Educational activities and resources that develop students' capabilities for transitioning from higher education to employment, including self-awareness, opportunity awareness, decision-making, and tr…
- Caregiver (Carer, Care partner, Support person)
- A person who provides ongoing assistance to someone with a disability, chronic condition, or age-related need, encompassing both formal caregivers (paid professionals) and informal caregivers (family …
- Caregiver (Family Caregiver, Informal Caregiver, Carer)
- A person who provides unpaid assistance with daily activities, emotional support, and care coordination for a family member, friend, or neighbor who has a disability, chronic illness, or age-related n…
- Caregiver Burden (Carer Burden, Caregiver Stress)
- Caregiver burden refers to the physical, emotional, social, and financial strain experienced by individuals who provide ongoing care to a family member or partner with a disability, chronic illness, o…
- Caregiver Burnout (carer burnout, caregiver exhaustion)
- A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that occurs when a caregiver does not get the support or respite they need, often resulting from the sustained demands of caring for a person with…
- Caregiver Interdependence (Care Dependency, Caregiver Reliance)
- The mutual reliance between a disabled person and their caregivers, encompassing physical assistance, emotional support, and technological mediation. In accessibility contexts, caregiver interdependen…
- Caregiver Support (Carer Support, Family Support)
- Assistance, training, and resources provided to family members, paid carers, and other individuals who support people with disabilities in daily life. In the context of assistive technology, caregiver…
- Caregiving (Carer, Caregiver, Care Partner, Informal Carer)
- The unpaid or paid work of supporting another person with daily living, health management, social participation, or emotional needs, often in the context of disability, chronic illness, or ageing. In …
- Caret Browsing (Caret Navigation, Caret Browse Mode)
- A browser navigation mode that places a movable text cursor (caret) directly in web page content, allowing users to navigate and select text using standard keyboard commands as if the page were a docu…
- Carousel (Image Carousel, Content Carousel, Slider Carousel)
- A UI pattern that displays a rotating series of content items (images, cards, teasers) in a single area, typically navigated by swipe, arrows, or auto-advance. Carousels pose well-known accessibility …
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS, Carpal Tunnel)
- A condition caused by compression of the median nerve as it passes through the carpal tunnel in the wrist, resulting in numbness, tingling, weakness, and pain in the hand and fingers. Carpal tunnel sy…
- Cascading Access Barriers (Compounding Barriers, Barrier Cascades)
- A pattern where an initial accessibility barrier triggers a chain of subsequent barriers, each compounding the difficulty of the previous one. For example, missing a pharmacy notification (first barri…
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS, Stylesheets)
- A stylesheet language used to describe the visual presentation of HTML documents, controlling layout, colors, fonts, spacing, and responsive design. CSS is intentionally separated from HTML content to…
- Cascading classifier (Staged classifier, Multi-stage classifier)
- A machine learning architecture that applies progressively more computationally expensive analysis stages, with each stage filtering out easy-to-classify cases so that only ambiguous instances proceed…
- Cascading classifier (Cascaded detection, Multi-stage classifier)
- A machine learning architecture that chains multiple detection stages in sequence, where each stage filters candidates before passing them to the next, progressively increasing detection precision whi…
- Case Study (Case Study Research)
- A research method involving an in-depth investigation of a single individual, group, event, or situation in its real-world context. Case studies combine multiple data sources such as observations, int…