Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Electronic Curb-Cut Effect(also: Digital Curb-Cut Effect, Curb-Cut Effect)
- The phenomenon where accessibility features originally designed for people with disabilities end up benefiting a much wider population. Named after physical curb cuts in sidewalks — originally mandated for wheelchair users but widely used by people with strollers, delivery…
- Employment Accessibility(also: Workplace Accessibility, Job Accessibility, Accessible Employment)
- The broad concept of ensuring that all aspects of finding, applying for, interviewing for, and performing a job are accessible to people with disabilities. Employment accessibility encompasses accessible job postings, application systems, interview accommodations, pre-employment…
- Enforced Trust(also: Compelled Trust)
- A dynamic in which blind people are required to trust technologies, sighted individuals, and systems without having independent means to verify the information or outputs provided to them. Enforced trust arises from the knowledge imbalance where blind users cannot directly…
- Error Tolerance(also: Error Prevention, Forgiveness)
- A design principle requiring that systems anticipate, prevent, and gracefully handle user errors. In accessible design, error tolerance means providing clear validation messages, allowing users to undo actions, confirming destructive operations, and ensuring that mistakes do not…
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