Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- 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 of Practice (CoP)
- A group of people who share a common interest or concern and learn together through regular interaction, sharing knowledge, and collaborative problem-solving. In technology adoption contexts, communit…
- 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 Rehabilitation (CBR)
- Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is a strategy for enhancing the quality of life of people with disabilities by improving service delivery, providing equitable opportunities, and promoting their r…
- 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 …
- Community-Centered Design (Community-Based Design)
- A design approach that centers the expertise, needs, and perspectives of specific communities throughout the technology development process, rather than designing for communities from the outside. In …
- Community-Driven Accessibility (Crowdsourced Accessibility, Peer-Driven Accessibility)
- Accessibility improvements initiated and maintained by community members rather than platform operators or content creators. Examples include viewers adding timestamps and chapter breakdowns in video …
- Community-Driven Research (Community-Based Research, Community-Led Research)
- A research approach where the community being studied plays a central role in defining research questions, designing methodologies, collecting data, and interpreting results. In accessibility, communi…
- Community-sourcing (Community Sourcing, Community-contributed Data)
- A data collection approach where members of a specific community contribute information based on their direct experience and local knowledge, as distinct from general crowdsourcing which draws on anon…
- Comorbidity (Co-occurring Conditions, Dual Diagnosis)
- The simultaneous presence of two or more medical conditions or disorders in the same individual. Comorbidity is extremely common in neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions—for example, ADHD fr…
- Compassion Fatigue (secondary traumatic stress, empathy fatigue)
- A state of emotional and physical exhaustion that results from the prolonged exposure to others' suffering, particularly in caregiving contexts. Unlike burnout, which develops gradually from chronic w…
- Compensatory Technology (Compensatory Approach)
- Assistive technology designed primarily to offset or make up for a person's functional limitations, focusing on what the person cannot do rather than building on their existing abilities. While compen…
- Competency-Based Design (Competency-Based Approach)
- An accessible design methodology that extends ability-based design by focusing on "competencies"—the representative practical skills people develop through participation in everyday activities, partic…
- Complementary Cognition
- A theory proposed by Taylor, Fernandes, and Wraight suggesting that the human species has adapted and evolved cognitively to complement each other through cognitive specializations and effective colla…
- Complex Adaptive System (CAS)
- A system composed of many interconnected, diverse components that interact and adapt in response to each other and their environment, producing emergent behaviors that cannot be predicted from the pro…
- Complex Communication Needs (CCN)
- A term describing the communication challenges faced by individuals who cannot rely on speech alone to meet all their communication needs in daily life. People with complex communication needs may use…
- Complex Needs (Complex Access Needs, Complex Support Needs)
- Complex needs refers to the situation where an individual requires support across multiple areas of functioning due to a combination of physical, sensory, cognitive, communication, or behavioral facto…
- Composite Figure (Multi-panel Figure, Multi-element Figure)
- A figure that contains multiple distinct visual elements combined into a single image, such as a series of screenshots labeled (a) through (f), a set of charts showing different data sets, or a mix of…
- Compound Controls (Composite Widgets, Complex Controls)
- User interface components that combine multiple interactive elements into a single logical control, such as a group of radio buttons, a set of checkboxes with a shared label, a combobox (combining a t…