Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Paternalism(also: Paternalistic Approach)
- The practice of making decisions for others based on the assumption that one knows what is best for them, without adequately consulting or empowering them to make their own choices. In disability contexts, paternalism manifests when parents, professionals, researchers, or…
- Personal Independence Payment(also: PIP)
- A UK non-means-tested, points-based disability benefit for working-age adults that helps with the extra costs of long-term physical or mental health conditions. PIP has two components — Daily Living and Mobility — and is awarded based on functional assessments conducted via…
- Pleasure Activism
- A framework articulated by adrienne maree brown that centers pleasure, joy, and satisfaction as essential components of social justice and liberation movements. In disability contexts, pleasure activism challenges the assumption that disabled people's lives are defined by…
- Power Dynamics in Accessibility(also: Access Power Relations)
- The ways in which power operates within the systems that govern assistive technology provision, disability services, and access to accommodations. Power dynamics manifest through institutional gatekeeping (who defines what counts as AT and who qualifies), information asymmetry…
- ProcureAccess(also: Procure Access)
- A business-to-business initiative run by the non-profit Disability:IN that asks organisations to commit to embedding accessibility and disability inclusion into their technology procurement processes. Signatories pledge to require accessibility conformance information (such as…
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