Accessibility & accommodations · Core

Disability

ELI5

A long-term physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual or mental-health condition interacting with environmental and social barriers.

Used in conversation

“The access plan needs to cover the disability before production.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Disability” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.