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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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Residual Category(also: Residual Categories)
A concept from Susan Leigh Star describing the "other" or "not applicable" categories in classification systems — the bucket where anything that does not fit predefined types gets placed. Individuals sorted into residual categories become illegible to the systems that grant…

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