Cross-Disability

A research, advocacy, or design orientation that deliberately engages multiple disability communities at once rather than treating disability as a single-axis category or focusing on a single impairment group. Cross-disability work surfaces shared structural barriers (ableism, inaccessible technology, policy gaps) while also attending to the distinct lived experiences of blind, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, chronically ill, motor-disabled, AAC-using, and multiply disabled participants. In HCI and accessibility research, cross-disability focus groups are valued for enabling cross-community solidarity and revealing how technology reproduces or resists intersecting oppressions across disability, race, gender, and language.