Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- AODA(also: Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act)
- Canadian provincial legislation enacted in 2005 that sets out a roadmap to make Ontario fully accessible by 2025. AODA establishes mandatory accessibility standards across five areas: customer service, information and communications, employment, transportation, and the design of…
- Criminalization
- The process by which behaviors, identities, or survival strategies are defined as criminal, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities including disabled people. In accessibility contexts, criminalization creates access barriers when disabled people's survival…
- Digital Surveillance(also: Online Surveillance)
- The monitoring, tracking, and collection of data about individuals through digital technologies, including by governments, corporations, and other institutions. For disabled people, digital surveillance creates specific accessibility concerns: assistive technology data may…
- FOSTA-SESTA(also: Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)
- U.S. federal legislation (2018) that amended Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make online platforms liable for user content that facilitates sex trafficking. While intended to combat trafficking, the laws have had significant negative consequences for disabled…
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