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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Compulsory Able-Bodiedness(also: Compulsory Ableness)
A concept from disability studies scholar Robert McRuer describing the pervasive social assumption that all people should aspire to and perform able-bodiedness as the default, desirable state. Like compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able-bodiedness operates as an invisible…

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