Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Chronic Illness (Chronic Condition, Long-Term Illness)
- Health conditions that persist for an extended period, typically more than three months, and may require ongoing management but do not necessarily have a cure. Examples include diabetes, fibromyalgia,…
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD, Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis)
- A group of progressive lung diseases — including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and non-reversible asthma — characterized by increasing breathlessness, cough, and reduced exercise tolerance. COPD affe…
- Chronic Pain
- Persistent pain lasting longer than three months that may arise from an initial injury, ongoing illness, or without a clear physical cause. Chronic pain is a common experience among people with disabi…
- Chrononormativity (Temporal Normativity)
- The way institutions impose normative temporal expectations—standardized timelines, schedules, and paces of development—that shape how bodies and lives are organized and evaluated. In assistive techno…
- Chunking
- In cognitive science and human-computer interaction, chunking refers to the mental strategy of grouping individual items of information into larger, unified units (chunks) to reduce working memory loa…
- Circle of Friends (Circle of Support, Circles of Support)
- Circle of Friends (or Circle of Support) is a facilitated social-inclusion intervention in which a person with a disability is surrounded by a small, intentional group of peers, family members, and su…
- Circuit Design (Electronic Circuit Design, Circuit Schematic Design)
- The process of creating and representing electrical circuits that perform specific functions, using standard symbolic representations called schematics to show how components like resistors, capacitor…
- Circumplex Model of Affect (Russell's Circumplex Model, Valence-Arousal Model)
- A psychological framework that represents emotions along two continuous dimensions: valence (pleasure vs. displeasure) and arousal (activation vs. deactivation). Proposed by James Russell in 1980, the…
- Circumplex Model of Emotion (Russell Circumplex Model, Valence-Arousal Model, Circumplex Model of Affect)
- A psychological model proposed by James Russell in 1980 that arranges emotional states in a two-dimensional plane defined by valence (pleasant vs unpleasant) and arousal (activated vs calm). The four …
- Citation Form (Dictionary Form, Isolated Form)
- The standard, isolated way a sign is produced when demonstrated independently, as typically shown in sign language dictionaries. In natural continuous signing, signs often appear differently from thei…
- Citational Justice (Citation Justice, Citational Politics)
- The practice of consciously and equitably attributing knowledge to its sources, particularly uplifting contributions from marginalized scholars and communities whose work is often overlooked or approp…
- Citizen Science (Community Science, Participatory Science)
- Citizen science is a research approach that engages non-expert members of the public in collecting, processing, or analyzing scientific data, often through purpose-built interactive tools and platform…
- Citizen Sensing (Citizen Sensor, Participatory Sensing)
- A data collection approach in which members of the public use mobile devices or other tools to gather and report information about their environment, contributing to collective datasets that can infor…
- Civic Participation (Civic Engagement)
- Civic participation encompasses the activities through which individuals engage in the democratic process and public life, including voting, attending public meetings, contacting elected officials, an…
- Civic Technology (Civic Tech, Civic Hacking)
- Technology developed by community members, advocacy groups, or volunteers to improve public services, increase government transparency, and address civic challenges. In accessibility, civic technology…
- Civil Inattention
- A social behavior theorized by sociologist Erving Goffman describing how strangers in public spaces acknowledge each other's presence through brief eye contact or a nod, then deliberately look away to…
- Clarifying Question (Clarifying Questions, Counter-Question)
- A clarifying question is a follow-up query posed by a system or interlocutor to resolve ambiguity, fill missing context, or confirm intent before acting on a user's request. In conversational interfac…
- Classical Aesthetics (Classical Design Aesthetics)
- A dimension of visual aesthetics in web design characterised by simplicity, clarity, orderliness, and visual cleanness. Classical aesthetic principles are rooted in early visual design traditions that…
- Classifier (Classifier Predicate, Depicting Sign)
- A type of sign language construction in which handshapes represent categories of objects or entities and are combined with movement and location to convey spatial information about position, movement,…
- Classifier Predicates (CL Predicates, Classifiers)
- A type of sign language construction in which signers use their hands to represent the location, movement, size, shape, and spatial relationships of objects and people. Classifier predicates are among…