Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Cognitive accessibility(also: Cognitive a11y, COGA)
- The practice of designing digital content, interfaces, and interactions so they are usable by people with cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities, including conditions such as dementia, intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and learning disabilities.…
- Cognitive load(also: Mental load, Cognitive burden, Cognitive demand)
- The total amount of mental effort required to complete a task, encompassing the processing of information, decision-making, remembering instructions, and managing attention. Cognitive load theory, developed by John Sweller in the 1980s, distinguishes between intrinsic load…
- Collective access(also: Collective communication access)
- A disability justice concept that frames accessibility as a shared, relational practice created by a group rather than an individual accommodation delivered to one person. In contrast to traditional models where a disabled person requests and receives access (such as captioning…
- Crip technoscience(also: Crip tech, Critical disability technoscience)
- A framework from disability studies, articulated by Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch, that positions disabled people as expert knowledge-makers and innovative technologists rather than passive recipients of assistive solutions designed by non-disabled professionals. Crip…
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