Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Crowdsourced Accessibility (Crowdsourced Accessibility Auditing, Citizen-Sourced Accessibility)
- The practice of collecting accessibility information about physical or digital environments through contributions from large numbers of people, rather than relying solely on professional auditors. In …
- Crowdsourced Accessibility Mapping (Collaborative Accessibility Mapping, Citizen-Sourced Accessibility Data)
- The practice of using contributions from members of the public to identify, report, and map accessibility barriers and features in physical or digital environments. In urban contexts, crowdsourced acc…
- Crowdsourced Captioning (Crowd Captioning, Collaborative Captioning)
- Crowdsourced captioning is an approach to creating video captions or subtitles by distributing the work across multiple contributors rather than relying on a single professional captionist. This metho…
- Crowdsourced accessibility data (Crowdsourced validation, Accessibility crowdsourcing)
- The collection, verification, or enrichment of accessibility-related geographic or environmental information through the coordinated efforts of many distributed contributors, often via web-based platf…
- Crowdsourcing (Crowd-Sourced Data, Community Reporting)
- A method of collecting data, information, or contributions from a large number of people, typically via the internet, rather than relying on a single authoritative source. In accessibility contexts, c…
- Crowdsourcing
- The practice of gathering information, data, or contributions from a large group of distributed participants, typically via the internet. In accessibility, crowdsourcing platforms like Wheelmap and Ac…
- Crowdsourcing Accessibility (Accessibility Crowdsourcing)
- The practice of using distributed groups of people, often through online platforms, to collect, label, or improve accessibility-related information at scale. Examples include using crowd workers to au…
- Crystallized Intelligence (Gc)
- Crystallized intelligence refers to the accumulated knowledge, skills, vocabulary, and general information a person acquires through experience and education over their lifetime. Unlike fluid intellig…
- Cued Naming Therapy (Cued Naming, Cueing Hierarchy Therapy)
- A structured aphasia therapy approach in which clinicians provide progressively stronger hints (cues) to help a person retrieve a target word. Cues may be phonological (providing the first sound or sy…
- Cued Speech (Cued Language)
- A visual communication system that combines mouth movements of speech with hand shapes and positions (cues) near the face to make spoken language visually accessible. Unlike sign language, which is an…
- Cueing (External Cueing, Sensory Cueing)
- In rehabilitation, cueing is the delivery of external sensory stimuli - visual, auditory, or somatosensory - that guide or trigger a motor action. Cueing is used most prominently in Parkinson's diseas…
- Cultural Appropriation (Cultural Misappropriation)
- The adoption or use of elements from a minority culture by members of a dominant culture without proper understanding, acknowledgment, or respect for their original meaning and significance. In disabi…
- Cultural Barrier (Cultural Challenge)
- Social and cultural norms that impede learning or participation in certain activities. In sign language education, cultural barriers significantly affect hearing learners' ability to produce non-manua…
- Cultural Competence (Cultural Competency, Cultural Responsiveness)
- The ability of service providers, organisations, and systems to effectively deliver services that meet the social, cultural, and linguistic needs of diverse populations. In accessibility and healthcar…
- Cultural Heritage (Heritage, Digital Heritage)
- Cultural heritage is the inherited tangible and intangible expressions of a community’s history, including buildings, monuments, artefacts, landscapes, oral traditions, performance, ritual, and langua…
- Cultural Heritage Accessibility (Heritage Accessibility, Accessible Cultural Heritage)
- The practice of making cultural heritage sites, monuments, museums, and artifacts accessible to people with disabilities through physical modifications, assistive technologies, and alternative formats…
- Cultural Heritage Accessibility (CH Accessibility, Heritage Accessibility, Museum Accessibility, GLAM Accessibility)
- Cultural heritage accessibility refers to the practices, standards, and technologies that enable people with disabilities — as well as non-specialist and diverse audiences — to access, discover, and e…
- Cultural Mediator (Museum Mediator, Cultural Facilitator)
- A professional who facilitates meaningful engagement between cultural institutions (such as museums, galleries, or heritage sites) and visitors, particularly those from diverse or marginalised backgro…
- Cultural Model of Disability
- An extension of disability models that accounts for the multitude of cultural meanings embedded in disability across different societies and communities. The cultural model recognizes that disability …
- Cultural Probes (Design Probes, Probes)
- A design research technique in which participants are given a kit of open-ended, often playful artefacts - such as disposable cameras, diaries, maps, or prompts - to document aspects of their daily li…