Chart question answering: State of the art and future directions

E Hoque, P Kavehzadeh, A Masry - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very common for
analyzing data and discovering critical insights. Often people analyze charts to answer …

VoxLens: Making online data visualizations accessible with an interactive JavaScript plug-in

A Sharif, OH Wang, AT Muongchan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
JavaScript visualization libraries are widely used to create online data visualizations but
provide limited access to their information for screen-reader users. Building on prior findings …

Chart-to-text: A large-scale benchmark for chart summarization

S Kantharaj, RTK Leong, X Lin, A Masry… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Charts are commonly used for exploring data and communicating insights. Generating
natural language summaries from charts can be very helpful for people in inferring key …

Rich screen reader experiences for accessible data visualization

J Zong, C Lee, A Lundgard, JW Jang… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current web accessibility guidelines ask visualization designers to support screen readers
via basic non‐visual alternatives like textual descriptions and access to raw data tables. But …

Supporting accessible data visualization through audio data narratives

A Siu, G SH Kim, S O'Modhrain, S Follmer - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Online data visualizations play an important role in informing public opinion but are often
inaccessible to screen reader users. To address the need for accessible data …

Striking a balance: Reader takeaways and preferences when integrating text and charts

C Stokes, V Setlur, B Cogley… - … on Visualization and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While visualizations are an effective way to represent insights about information, they rarely
stand alone. When designing a visualization, text is often added to provide additional …

How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability

F Elavsky, C Bennett, D Moritz - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Novices and experts have struggled to evaluate the accessibility of data visualizations
because there are no common shared guidelines across environments, platforms, and …

Chart reader: Accessible visualization experiences designed with screen reader users

JR Thompson, JJ Martinez, A Sarikaya… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Even though screen readers are a core accessibility tool for blind and low vision individuals
(BLVIs), most visualizations are incompatible with screen readers. To improve accessible …

Vistext: A benchmark for semantically rich chart captioning

BJ Tang, A Boggust, A Satyanarayan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05356, 2023 - arxiv.org
Captions that describe or explain charts help improve recall and comprehension of the
depicted data and provide a more accessible medium for people with visual disabilities …

Unichart: A universal vision-language pretrained model for chart comprehension and reasoning

A Masry, P Kavehzadeh, XL Do, E Hoque… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Charts are very popular for analyzing data, visualizing key insights and answering complex
reasoning questions about data. To facilitate chart-based data analysis using natural …