Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Deaf Epistemology(also: Deaf Ways of Knowing)
- A body of theory and practice that recognizes Deaf communities as producers of distinct knowledge grounded in visual-spatial modalities, embodied interaction, sign language, and community experience. Deaf epistemologies foreground visual primacy, sightlines, and shared cultural…
- Disability Expertise
- The concept that disabled people hold specialized, experiential knowledge about their own conditions, access needs, and the social environments they navigate — knowledge that non-disabled researchers, clinicians, and designers cannot replicate without engagement. Disability…
- Double empathy problem(also: Double empathy theory)
- A theory proposed by Damian Milton (2012) that reframes communication difficulties between autistic and neurotypical individuals as arising from a mutual lack of understanding rather than a deficit in autistic people alone. The double empathy problem challenges the dominant…
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