Accessibility: Specific Terms

Sometimes, learning all the new vocabulary can be the most challenging part of picking up a new skill. Thankfully, there’s not a huge amount of accessibility-specific terminology. However, there are still a handful of words and abbreviations that we should know.

Disability

Disability is a broad term that can have different interpretations depending on context. For example, the way the US government defines disability in the Americans with Disabilities Act might differ from the way that disabled people choose to self-identify their experience.