Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Narrative Prosthesis
- A concept from disability studies describing how disability is used as a literary and rhetorical device—a plot driver, metaphor, or character-enriching detail—within narratives that ultimately serve the interests and perspectives of non-disabled people rather than accurately…
- Negotiated Agency
- A dynamic model of creative control in collaborative content creation where individuals with disabilities fluidly shift between the roles of director, collaborator, and editor in response to the task at hand, their personal preferences for privacy and autonomy, and the…
- Neuroaffirmative Practice(also: Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice, Neuroaffirming Approach)
- An approach to support, therapy, education, and technology design that affirms neurodivergent identities and ways of being rather than seeking to normalize them. Neuroaffirmative practice recognizes neurodivergent traits (like stimming, intense interests, and different…
- Neuroqueer Technoscience
- A theoretical framework, developed by Nick Walker and extended in HCI by Barros Pena, Williams and others, that builds on crip technoscience and the neuroqueer paradigm to position neurodivergent people as active agents who remake worlds, technologies, and social relations.…
- Normate
- A term coined by disability studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson to name the cultural figure - the imagined 'normal' body - against which other bodies are measured, valued, and judged deficient. The normate is not a real person but a template produced through social…
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