Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- ISO 9241-210(also: Human-Centred Design Standard, Ergonomics of Human-System Interaction — Part 210)
- An international standard specifying the principles and activities of human-centred design (HCD) for interactive systems. It defines a six-step iterative process — understanding context of use, specifying user requirements, producing design solutions, and evaluating against…
- Infrastructuring
- A theoretical lens from HCI, CSCW, and participatory design (developed from the work of Susan Leigh Star, Karen Ruhleder, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf) that treats infrastructure not as a finished artifact but as an ongoing, situated accomplishment. Infrastructuring highlights…
- Infrastructuring for Access
- A design approach introduced by Wang and Marie (CHI 2026) that combines HCI's infrastructuring theory with Disability Studies and Repair Studies. Rather than focusing on removing barriers or accommodating individual users, Infrastructuring for Access treats disabled…
- Iterative Design(also: Iterative Development, Design Iteration)
- Iterative design is a methodology where designs are developed through repeated cycles of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining. Each iteration incorporates feedback from evaluation to improve the design progressively. In accessibility work, iterative design is…
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