Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Shift-Left Accessibility(also: Early-Stage Accessibility, Accessibility by Design)
- An approach to software development that moves accessibility considerations earlier in the development lifecycle — from testing and remediation phases to requirements gathering and design phases. The term borrows from the broader "shift-left" movement in software engineering,…
- Social Accessibility
- A design paradigm introduced by Shinohara and colleagues emphasizing that assistive technologies must be designed for the social worlds they will be used within, not just for functional task completion. Social accessibility recognizes that assistive technologies often have a…
- Swift Playgrounds(also: Apple Swift Playgrounds)
- A hybrid block-based and text-based programming environment developed by Apple for iPad and Mac that teaches coding using the Swift programming language. Swift Playgrounds is notable in the accessibility education space because it integrates with VoiceOver, includes tactile maps…
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