Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Nature Engagement(also: Engagement with Nature)
- The active, lived practice of spending time in and interacting with natural environments - walking in parks, gardening, listening to birdsong, touching plants, sitting by water, and similar embodied encounters. Nature engagement extends beyond physical presence to multisensory,…
- Negotiated Agency
- A dynamic model of creative control in collaborative content creation where individuals with disabilities fluidly shift between the roles of director, collaborator, and editor in response to the task at hand, their personal preferences for privacy and autonomy, and the…
- Neuronormative(also: Neuronormativity)
- The assumption that neurotypical cognitive patterns — such as sustained linear attention, consistent daily productivity, conventional social communication, and predictable emotional regulation — represent the default or ideal way of functioning. Neuronormative standards are…
- Nothing About Us Without Us(also: NAUWU, Nihil de nobis sine nobis)
- A foundational principle of the disability rights movement asserting that people with disabilities must be meaningfully involved in decisions, policies, research, and design processes that affect their lives. In technology and AI development, this principle demands that disabled…
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