This section of the glossary gathers the foundational vocabulary needed to think and act on accessibility and inclusion with precision. It moves from broad organising principles such as inclusion, equity, accessibility, and access through to the specific, embodied realities that make those principles necessary in practice: disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and the terms and phrases, spoon theory, crip time, masking, that people use to describe living and working within a world not designed with them in mind.
Together, these terms equip readers to recognise both the systemic discrimination that shapes accessibility gaps and the individual, lived strategies used to navigate them and to build environments, policies, and everyday practices that respond to both.