Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Cascading Access Barriers(also: Compounding Barriers, Barrier Cascades)
- A pattern where an initial accessibility barrier triggers a chain of subsequent barriers, each compounding the difficulty of the previous one. For example, missing a pharmacy notification (first barrier) leads to a medication gap (second barrier), which worsens executive…
- Complex Adaptive System(also: CAS)
- A system composed of many interconnected, diverse components that interact and adapt in response to each other and their environment, producing emergent behaviors that cannot be predicted from the properties of individual parts. Education systems, healthcare systems, and the Web…
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