Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Biopsychosocial Model(also: BPS Model)
- The biopsychosocial model is a holistic framework for understanding health and disability that considers the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in a person's experience. In contrast to the medical model (which focuses on biological deficits) and the…
- Blind Epistemology
- Ways of knowing and understanding the world as a blind person, which are fluid, relational, and shaped by touch, sound, memory, spatial familiarity, and social interaction rather than visual perception. Blind epistemology recognizes that blind people develop rich, valid…
- Bodymind
- A concept from disability studies, introduced by Margaret Price and widely adopted by disability scholars and activists, referring to the inseparable integration of body and mind as a single entity. The term rejects the Cartesian dualism that separates physical and mental…
- Bodymind Barrier(also: Bodymind Access Barrier)
- A type of access barrier where performing a task leads to an undesirable physical or mental state, such as pain, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, or sensory overload. The task may be technically completable without distress, but existing approaches cause the person's…
- Boundary Objects(also: Boundary Object)
- A concept from Star and Griesemer (1989) describing artifacts that are structured enough to be understood by different social worlds but flexible enough to be interpreted differently by each one, allowing cooperation across communities without forced consensus. In accessibility…
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