Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Language Erasure(also: Linguistic Erasure, Language Flattening)
- The process by which a language's unique characteristics, variations, dialects, and cultural significance are diminished, homogenized, or eliminated — often through the dominance of a majority language or through technologies that oversimplify linguistic complexity. In the…
- Loss of Obscurity(also: Loss of anonymity)
- A concept introduced by Thomas J. Carroll in his 1961 book "Blindness: What It Is, What It Does, and How to Live with It," in which he identified twenty distinct losses that accompany the onset of blindness. Loss of obscurity refers to the unavoidable conspicuousness of carrying…
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