Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Communicational Accessibility(also: Communicative Accessibility)
- An approach to accessible design that goes beyond providing access to raw content (content accessibility) to preserving the designer's intended communicative strategy across all modalities and for all users. Where content accessibility asks "can the user access the…
- Critical Technical Practice(also: CTP)
- A research stance, articulated by Philip Agre in 1997, in which technologists reflect critically on the assumptions built into their own systems while continuing to build. Critical technical practice argues that technologies embody theory—every design choice encodes a…
- Crosscutting Concern(also: Cross-Cutting Concern)
- In software engineering, a crosscutting concern is a requirement or feature that affects multiple modules of a system and cannot be cleanly decomposed into a single component. Accessibility is a classic crosscutting concern because requirements like providing text alternatives,…
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