Communicating visualizations without visuals: Investigation of visualization alternative text for people with visual impairments

C Jung, S Mehta, A Kulkarni, Y Zhao… - … on visualization and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , we observed that visually impaired participants want to use visualizations to accomplish …
can perform with visualizations, are not fully enabled for people with visual impairments. For …

Accessible visualization: Design space, opportunities, and challenges

NW Kim, SC Joyner, A Riegelhuth… - Computer Graphics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
work with data, also known as data literacy, is becoming a vital skill for everyone [Shr18]. By
leveraging our visual perception, visualizations enablevisualization tasks visually impaired

Towards assisting the visually impaired: a review on techniques for decoding the visual data from chart images

KC Shahira, A Lijiya - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
visually impaired people and enable reasoning on these charts. Today, machine learning
algorithms generate visualisation … to use visualization,” in Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 38, …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review on the automatic creation of tactile graphics for the blind and visually impaired

M Mukhiddinov, SY Kim - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
… of proteins using the free biomolecular visualization software, Visual Molecular … enabled
blind students to analyze the protein structures. The results enabled undergraduate blind

Inclusive data visualization for people with disabilities: a call to action

K Marriott, B Lee, M Butler, E Cutrell, K Ellis, C Goncu… - Interactions, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… Furthermore, the use and need for visualizations is not just confined to data experts: …
visualization comes from interactivity. Interaction facilitates data exploration—for example, allowing

Tactile line drawings for improved shape understanding in blind and visually impaired users

A Panotopoulou, X Zhang, T Qiu, XD Yang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… in users with near or total blindness, enabling the blind community to perceive complex 3D
objects from 2D media. Members of the blind community rely heavily on tactile illustrations, …

COVID-19 highlights the issues facing blind and visually impaired people in accessing data on the web

AF Siu, D Fan, GSH Kim, HV Rao, X Vazquez… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… investigated the use of multimodal interfaces to enable users … devices, data and visualization
literacy have become an … sighted users to draw insights from data visualizations [32, 49, 87, …

[HTML][HTML] Two decades of touchable and walkable virtual reality for blind and visually impaired people: A high-level taxonomy

J Kreimeier, T Götzelmann - Multimodal Technologies and interaction, 2020 - mdpi.com
… of “VEs that were developed to enable people who are blind to improve their O&M skills” (…
and classification, effects such as visualization-related seemingly weightings cannot be …

Rich screen reader experiences for accessible data visualization

J Zong, C Lee, A Lundgard, JW Jang… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… for web-based visualizations. We identify three design dimensions for enabling an expressive
… 13 blind or visually impaired screen reader users. We identify specific features that make …

How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability

F Elavsky, C Bennett, D Moritz - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… on how to evaluate accessible data visualizations. We present … enables designers, developers,
researchers, and auditors to evaluate data-driven visualizations and interfaces for visual, …