Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Residual Category(also: Residual Categories)
- A concept from Susan Leigh Star describing the "other" or "not applicable" categories in classification systems — the bucket where anything that does not fit predefined types gets placed. Individuals sorted into residual categories become illegible to the systems that grant…
- Resistant Reading(also: Reading Against the Grain, Resistant Reader)
- A critical reading method, originally articulated by feminist literary theorist Judith Fetterley, that refuses the interpretive framework an author invites the reader to adopt and instead reads texts for what they silence, marginalise, or explain away. In HCI and accessibility…
- Routine Infrastructuring
- A concept developed by Bryan Semaan describing community practices through which marginalised and oppressed groups continually reconfigure sociotechnical arrangements to sustain everyday life under persistent disruption. Unlike classical infrastructuring, which treats disruption…
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