Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Deficit-Based Approach(also: Deficit Model, Deficit Framing, Deficit Perspective)
- An approach that focuses primarily on what individuals cannot do, what skills they lack, or what is "wrong" with them, rather than their strengths, abilities, and potential. In disability and accessibility contexts, deficit-based approaches frame disabled people through their…
- Disability Dongle
- A term coined by disability advocate Liz Jackson describing a well-intentioned but ultimately useless technology solution created for disabled people by non-disabled people who have not engaged with the community they intend to serve. Disability dongles are typically conceived…
- Disabling by Design(also: Designed Disability, Systemic Disablement)
- A critical framework describing how systems, policies, and processes create disability through their design rather than through malicious intent. When a system requires cognitive, physical, or sensory capabilities that it simultaneously undermines or fails to accommodate, it is…
- Duality(also: Dual Lives)
- The practice of managing plural identities across different contexts, where a person lives dual work lives and maintains separate identity presentations depending on the stakeholders they are interacting with. In disability contexts, duality involves strategic navigation of…
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