Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Digital Equity(also: Digital Equality)
- The condition in which all individuals and communities have equal access to, use of, and ability to benefit from digital technologies, regardless of disability, socioeconomic status, geographic location, or other factors. In workplace contexts, digital equity means ensuring that…
- Digital Labor(also: Digital Labour, Online Labor)
- Work performed through digital platforms and online systems, including microtask crowdwork, gig economy jobs, and remote freelancing. Digital labor raises important accessibility considerations because it can offer people with disabilities flexible employment opportunities that…
- Digitized Assessment(also: Digitised Assessment, Digital Hiring Assessment, Computer-Based Employment Assessment)
- A computer-based hiring test used by employers to evaluate candidates' personality, cognition, skills, or judgement. Common formats include personality inventories, gamified cognitive tasks (balloon-inflating risk tests, Flanker attention tasks, arithmetic mini-games),…
- Disability Divide(also: Digital Disability Divide)
- The sociotechnical disparity between people with and without disabilities in terms of access to, use of, and benefits from digital technologies. While digitalization has transformed work, education, and daily life, many digital systems remain inaccessible or insufficiently…
- Disability Employment Gap(also: Employment Disparity)
- The significant difference in employment rates between people with and without disabilities. Statistics consistently show that people with disabilities are employed at roughly half the rate of non-disabled people — for example, 34.4% versus 75.4% in the United States (2015…
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