Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Information asymmetry(also: Information gap, Information lag)
- In accessibility contexts, the unequal access to timely, relevant information experienced by disabled people compared to non-disabled peers, caused by inaccessible formats, platforms, and communication channels. Information asymmetry goes beyond the inability to access specific…
- Infrastructural precarity(also: Digital infrastructure barriers)
- The condition of unreliable, inconsistent, or inadequate technological infrastructure that shapes and constrains how people — particularly disabled people and those in the Global South — can access and use digital technologies. Infrastructural precarity encompasses unreliable…
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