Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act(also: IDEA)
- A United States federal law that guarantees students with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment. Originally enacted in 1975 as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act and reauthorized as IDEA in 1990…
- Institutional Barriers(also: Organizational Barriers, Systemic Barriers)
- Obstacles to accessibility, technology adoption, or inclusion that arise from organizational policies, practices, norms, and cultures rather than from individual limitations or technology design. In schools for the blind, institutional barriers include management resistance to…
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