Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Disability Porn
- A critical term used within disability studies and disability communities to describe media content that frames disabled people as objects of pity, tragedy, or spectacle for a non-disabled audience's emotional consumption. Often paired with or related to 'inspiration porn,' the…
- Disability Representation in VR
- The portrayal and inclusion of disabilities in virtual reality environments, encompassing avatar design, assistive device depiction, and environmental features that acknowledge disability. Research shows this is a deeply personal and context-dependent issue: disabled users often…
- Text-to-Image Model(also: T2I Model, T2I, Text-to-Image Generator)
- A generative AI system that produces images from natural-language prompts. Prominent examples include DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. In accessibility contexts, text-to-image models have been shown to replicate and amplify disability stereotypes — for example,…
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