Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Autism Industrial Complex(also: AIC)
- A term coined by Alicia Broderick and Robin Roscigno to describe the commercial ecosystem that treats autism as a commodity, establishing it as a normative cultural narrative that necessitates intervention. The autism industrial complex encompasses the interconnected network of…
- Critical Computing
- An umbrella term for HCI and computer-science scholarship that interrogates the values, power relations, and social consequences of computing technologies rather than taking their benefits as given. Critical computing draws on disability studies, science and technology studies…
- Damage-centered Design(also: Damage-centered Research, Deficit-framed Design)
- An approach in HCI and design research that frames marginalized communities - including disabled people, BIPOC communities, and others - primarily through the lens of harms, deficits, and barriers to be remediated. The term, popularized by Eve Tuck and extended by Alexandra To…
- Discourse Analysis(also: Critical Discourse Analysis, CDA)
- A research methodology that examines how language constructs meaning, power relations, identities, and social realities. Critical discourse analysis specifically investigates how language in texts, media, and institutions reflects and reproduces social inequalities. In…
- Epistemic Violence(also: Epistemic Injustice)
- The systematic marginalization, dismissal, or overriding of certain groups' knowledge, experiences, and ways of understanding the world. In disability contexts, epistemic violence occurs when non-disabled researchers, clinicians, or companies claim authority over disabled…
- Technocapitalist Disability Rhetoric
- A term describing the marketing and promotional language used by technology companies that recasts lived disability experience into marketable suffering and positions technological products as purchasable solutions. Coined by Bonnie Tucker, technocapitalist disability rhetoric…
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