Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Financial Accessibility(also: Accessible Banking, Inclusive Finance)
- The design and provision of financial services, tools, and platforms that are usable by people of all abilities, ages, and levels of digital literacy. Financial accessibility encompasses making banking websites and mobile apps compatible with assistive technologies, designing…
- Financial Literacy
- The knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about money — including understanding income, expenses, saving, debt, interest, credit, taxes, insurance, and benefits programs. For accessibility, financial literacy intersects with numeracy, reading accessibility, and…
- Fintech(also: Financial Technology)
- An umbrella term for software and digital-service innovations in the financial sector, including online and mobile banking, payments (e.g., Apple Pay, PayPal), budgeting apps, investment platforms, digital wallets, cryptocurrency services, and Buy-Now-Pay-Later products. Fintech…
- Friendsourcing
- A practice where people with disabilities turn to friends, family members, or social network contacts to obtain assistance with accessibility-related tasks, such as describing images, identifying objects, or verifying visual information. Unlike crowdsourcing from strangers,…
- Functional Illiteracy(also: Low Literacy, Limited Literacy)
- A condition in which a person has basic reading and writing skills but cannot effectively understand or use written text for everyday tasks such as reading instructions, filling out forms, or comprehending web content beyond simple sentences. UNESCO defines functional illiteracy…
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