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Beauty Accessibility(also: Accessible Beauty, Inclusive Beauty)

The design and practice of making beauty and personal grooming products, tools, services, and information accessible to people with disabilities. Beauty accessibility encompasses tactile and braille product labeling, non-visual makeup application techniques, accessible beauty…

Bespoke Design(also: Custom Design, Bespoke Assistive Technology)

The creation of individually tailored products or solutions made to meet the specific needs of a single user, as opposed to mass-produced or universally designed items. In assistive technology, bespoke design addresses the reality that every person's combination of abilities,…

Biometric Authentication(also: Biometrics, Biometric Security, Behavioral Biometrics)

Security technology that uses unique biological or behavioral characteristics to verify identity, including fingerprints, facial recognition, iris scans, voice patterns, and handwritten signatures. Accessibility considerations are critical because many biometric systems assume…

Biophilia(also: Biophilia Hypothesis)

The hypothesis, popularized by biologist E. O. Wilson, that humans have an innate affinity for living things and natural systems, and that contact with nature is therefore a fundamental contributor to physical and psychological wellbeing. Biophilia underpins much research on…

Board Game Accessibility(also: Tabletop Game Accessibility)

The practice of making physical board games, card games, and tabletop games playable by people with disabilities. Most commercial board games rely heavily on visual information — printed text, colors, visual textures, and spatial layouts — making them inaccessible to blind and…

Born Accessible(also: Born-Accessible, Accessibility-First)

An approach to content creation where accessibility is designed in from the beginning rather than retrofitted afterward. Born accessible content is created with accessibility requirements as core specifications, ensuring that people with disabilities can access it immediately…

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