Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Community Health Worker(also: CHW, Lay Health Worker)
- A frontline healthcare provider who is a trusted member of the community they serve and who delivers basic health services, education, and referrals, typically with limited formal training. Community health workers extend the reach of formal health systems into homes and…
- Context-Appropriate Technology(also: Appropriate Technology, Context-Appropriate AT)
- Technology, particularly assistive technology, that is designed or selected to fit the specific social, economic, cultural, and environmental context in which it will be used. Context-appropriate technology considers factors such as local infrastructure, available materials,…
- Culturally Responsive Computing(also: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Computing, Culturally Relevant Computing)
- A pedagogical approach to computing education that grounds instruction in learners' cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic realities rather than treating Global North curricula and technologies as universally applicable. Building on Ladson-Billings' culturally relevant…
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