Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Leadership of the Most Affected
- A core principle of disability-justice organising that positions people most directly affected by a problem — those with the most at stake and the most lived expertise — as the leaders of work aimed at solving it, rather than as consultants, testers, or recipients of others'…
- Liberatory access(also: Liberation-oriented access)
- An approach to accessibility that goes beyond inclusion and assimilation to challenge the broader conditions of ableism and exclusion that create inaccessibility in the first place. Coined by disability justice activist Mia Mingus, liberatory access strives not just to help…
- Linguistic Minority(also: Language Minority)
- A group whose primary language differs from the dominant language of the surrounding society, often placing them at a disadvantage in education, employment, civic participation, and access to information. Deaf sign language users are frequently described as a linguistic and…
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