Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Direct Speech Access (Speech-Enabling)
- An approach to providing speech output where applications generate spoken feedback directly from their semantic context, as opposed to the traditional screen-reading approach where an external program…
- Direct Touch Mapping (DTM, Touch-to-Audio Mapping)
- An interaction technique in accessible touchscreen interfaces where the physical position of a user's finger on the screen corresponds directly to a position within the underlying content, such as a d…
- Directed graph (Digraph)
- A mathematical structure consisting of nodes connected by edges that have a defined direction — the connection from A to B is distinct from the connection from B to A. Web navigation is modelled as a …
- Direction-Based Navigation (Directional Navigation, Direction-Based Cursor Control)
- A cursor control method where users issue directional commands such as "move left," "move up," or "move down" to reposition the cursor on screen. In speech-based implementations, these commands move t…
- Directional Guidance (Navigation Guidance, Orientation Feedback)
- Real-time feedback that helps users maintain correct positioning or navigate toward a target, commonly provided through audio cues (such as pitch changes) or haptic signals (such as vibration patterns…
- Directional Stimulus Prompting (DSP)
- A prompt engineering technique for large language models that provides specific keywords or directional stimuli to guide the model toward generating output focused on particular aspects or attributes.…
- DisCrit (Disability Critical Race Studies, Dis/ability Critical Race Studies)
- DisCrit (Disability Critical Race Studies) is a theoretical framework that merges Disability Studies with Critical Race Theory to analyze how racism and ableism are interdependent systems that work to…
- Disability
- A complex, multidimensional concept encompassing physical, sensory, cognitive, and psychosocial differences that interact with societal barriers to limit full participation. The social model of disabi…
- Disability Aesthetics
- A discourse related to reclaiming the visibility of disability in mainstream art, particularly visual and performance arts, through the depiction of disabled bodies as both beautiful and inspiring. Un…
- Disability Art (Disability Arts)
- Artistic work created by disabled artists that is specifically informed by their experience of disability, often rooted in the social dynamics of identity, disability culture, and the struggle for dis…
- Disability Arts (Disability Art, Crip Art)
- A cultural and artistic movement in which disabled artists create work that draws on, reflects, and is informed by their lived experience of disability. Disability arts encompasses visual art, perform…
- Disability Awareness (Disability Awareness Training)
- The understanding and recognition of the experiences, challenges, and rights of people with disabilities. Disability awareness encompasses knowledge of different types of disabilities, the barriers (p…
- Disability Community (Disabled Community)
- A group of people connected by shared experiences of disability who may share culture, identity, advocacy goals, and mutual support networks. Disability communities can be organized around specific co…
- 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…
- Disability Disclosure (Self-Disclosure, Disability Identity Disclosure)
- The act of revealing one's disability status to others, including employers, educators, peers, or service providers. Disability disclosure is a complex, strategic decision influenced by stigma, fear o…
- Disability Disclosure (Disclosure)
- The act of revealing information about one's disability to others, whether voluntarily or through necessity. Disclosure decisions are complex, involving considerations of privacy, safety, accommodatio…
- Disability Divide (Digital Disability Divide)
- The sociotechnical disparity between people with and without disabilities in terms of access to, use of, and benefits from digital technologies. While digitalization has transformed work, education, a…
- Disability Dongle
- A term coined by disability advocate Liz Jackson describing a well-intentioned but ultimately useless technology solution created for disabled people by non-disabled people who have not engaged with t…
- Disability Employment (Disability and Employment)
- The broad domain encompassing how disability intersects with employment, including hiring discrimination, workplace accommodations, underemployment, employment gaps, and alternative work arrangements.…
- Disability Employment Gap (Employment Disparity)
- The significant difference in employment rates between people with and without disabilities. Statistics consistently show that people with disabilities are employed at roughly half the rate of non-dis…