Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Global North(also: Developed Countries, First World)
- A socioeconomic and political designation referring to countries that are typically wealthier, more economically developed, and generally located in the northern hemisphere — plus Australia and New Zealand. In accessibility research, the Global North dominates published…
- Global South Accessibility(also: Accessibility in Low-Resource Settings, Developing World Accessibility)
- The study and practice of making technology, environments, and services accessible to people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. Over 80% of the world's one billion people with disabilities live in the Global South, yet most accessibility research and…
- Global Symbols
- A community-interest company and open symbol platform that hosts multiple pictogram libraries for AAC and Easy Read, supports translation into many languages, and provides an AI-assisted SymbolBuilder tool for generating new symbols. Global Symbols is widely used in projects…
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