Accessibility dataset
Also known as: Disability-inclusive dataset, Accessible benchmark
A publicly available research dataset that includes data collected from people with disabilities, enabling algorithm development and benchmarking on representative populations rather than exclusively on non-disabled participants. Examples include WeAllWalk (inertial data from blind walkers), VizWiz (images taken by blind users), and speech corpora from people with dysarthria. Creating inclusive datasets is a key recommendation from AI fairness research, as performance disparities remain hidden when evaluation data excludes disabled users.
Category: data science · research methodology · artificial intelligence
Related: Benchmark dataset · Datasheets for datasets · Algorithmic bias · Differential privacy