Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Data Annotation(also: Data labeling, AI labeling)
- The process of attaching labels, transcriptions, bounding boxes, or other structured metadata to raw data so that it can be used to train, evaluate, or benchmark machine-learning models. Annotation is typically performed by human workers - in-house experts, clinicians,…
- Dataset Collection(also: Data Collection Protocol)
- The process of gathering, curating, and documenting data used to train, evaluate, or benchmark machine learning systems. In accessibility contexts, dataset collection decisions — who contributes, what objects or scenarios are captured, how quality is assessed, how privacy is…
- DementiaBank
- A shared database of multimedia interactions for the study of communication in dementia, maintained as part of the TalkBank system. DementiaBank contains longitudinal recordings of people with Alzheimer's disease and matched controls performing tasks like the "cookie theft"…
- Disability-First Dataset(also: Disability-first AI dataset)
- An approach to AI dataset creation, articulated by Theodorou et al. and others, that treats serving a disability community as the primary objective rather than collecting disability data as a minority slice of a general-purpose dataset. Examples include VizWiz (blind…
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