Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Participatory AI(also: Community-Centered AI, Participatory Machine Learning)
- An approach to artificial intelligence development that actively involves the communities affected by AI systems in defining problems, setting priorities, designing solutions, collecting data, evaluating outcomes, and governing deployment. Participatory AI goes beyond…
- Personhood
- The recognition of a human being as a full person with agency, dignity, self-expression, and moral standing, irrespective of cognitive, physical, or communicative impairments. In dementia care and accessibility practice, affirming personhood means interacting with the individual…
- Power Structures(also: Structural Power, Power Dynamics)
- The institutional, social, and economic arrangements that distribute power unevenly across groups in society, determining who has access to resources, decision-making authority, and the ability to define norms. In accessibility contexts, power structures shape which disabilities…
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