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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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Financial Autonomy(also: Financial Independence, Financial Self-Determination)
The ability of a person to make and enact their own financial decisions — earning, saving, spending, and planning — consistent with their values and goals. For people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, financial autonomy is often constrained by guardianship,…
Forced Intimacy
Forced Intimacy is a concept coined by disability and transformative justice activist Mia Mingus that describes the experience of disabled people being expected to share very personal information with non-disabled people simply to access basic services, navigate public spaces,…

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