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Digital Barrier(also: Digital Accessibility Barrier, ICT Barrier)

Any aspect of a digital system, tool, or environment that prevents or hinders use by people with disabilities or older users. Digital barriers can include poor colour contrast, missing alternative text, incompatibility with screen readers, lack of keyboard navigation, absence of…

Gatekeeping(also: Access Gatekeeping)

Gatekeeping in accessibility contexts refers to practices, policies, or attitudes that create unnecessary barriers to disabled people receiving the accommodations or access they need. This can include requiring excessive documentation to prove disability, questioning whether…

Institutionalization

The historical and ongoing practice of placing disabled people in segregated residential facilities such as asylums, nursing homes, and other care institutions, often without their consent. Institutionalization became the default approach to disability in the United States in…

Transinstitutionalization

The transition of disabled people from one type of institutional setting to another rather than to genuine community-based living. For example, the movement of disabled individuals from clinical institutions such as psychiatric hospitals to criminal institutional settings such…

Weed-Out Course(also: Gateway Course, Gatekeeper Course, Barrier Course)

A course in higher education, typically in STEM fields, that is perceived as intentionally rigorous to filter out students who are deemed unlikely to succeed in a given discipline. Courses like organic chemistry, calculus, and physics are commonly labelled as weed-out courses.…

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