Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Designing with Friction(also: Friction by Design)
- An HCI design stance, associated with Matthias Korn and Amy Voida, that argues for deliberately introducing friction into interactive systems to surface politics, provoke reflection, and enable democratic contention — rather than pursuing frictionless user experience as a…
- DisCrit(also: Disability Critical Race Studies, Dis/ability Critical Race Studies)
- DisCrit (Disability Critical Race Studies) is a theoretical framework that merges Disability Studies with Critical Race Theory to analyze how racism and ableism are interdependent systems that work together to marginalize people at the intersection of race and disability.…
- Disability Aesthetics
- A discourse related to reclaiming the visibility of disability in mainstream art, particularly visual and performance arts, through the depiction of disabled bodies as both beautiful and inspiring. Unlike disability art, disability aesthetics does not necessarily carry a social…
- Disability Justice(also: DJ)
- A framework developed by disabled queer and trans people of color — including Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, Stacey Milbern, Eli Clare, and Leroy Moore through Sins Invalid — that recognizes disability as intersecting with race, class, gender, sexuality, and other axes of oppression.…
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