Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Access as Friction
- A disability-studies framing, articulated by Jackson, Haagaard, and Williams, that reframes accessibility work as productive friction rather than seamless accommodation. Rather than smoothing every interaction, "access as friction" calls for designs that make users pause,…
- Anthropomorphism(also: Humanization, Anthropomorphization)
- The attribution of human characteristics, emotions, intentions, or behaviors to non-human entities such as technology, animals, or objects. In assistive technology and conversational AI design, anthropomorphism raises important questions about how human-like an interface should…
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