Accessible visualization: Design space, opportunities, and challenges

NW Kim, SC Joyner, A Riegelhuth… - Computer graphics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Visualizations are now widely used across disciplines to understand and communicate data.
The benefit of visualizations lies in leveraging our natural visual perception. However, the …

Accessible visualization via natural language descriptions: A four-level model of semantic content

A Lundgard, A Satyanarayan - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate
and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with …

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 …

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 …

Understanding data accessibility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

K Wu, E Petersen, T Ahmad, D Burlinson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Using visualization requires people to read abstract visual imagery, estimate statistics, and
retain information. However, people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) …

Should I say “disabled people” or “people with disabilities”? Language preferences of disabled people between identity-and person-first language

A Sharif, AL McCall, KR Bolante - Proceedings of the 24th international …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The usage of identity-(eg,“disabled people”) versus person-first language (eg,“people with
disabilities”) to refer to disabled people has been an active and ongoing discussion …

Surfacing visualization mirages

A McNutt, G Kindlmann, M Correll - … of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Dirty data and deceptive design practices can undermine, invert, or invalidate the purported
messages of charts and graphs. These failures can arise silently: a conclusion derived from …

Beyond Vision Impairments: Redefining the Scope of Accessible Data Representations

BL Wimer, L South, K Wu, DA Szafir… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing ubiquity of data in everyday life has elevated the importance of data literacy
and accessible data representations, particularly for individuals with disabilities. While prior …

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 …

Troubling collaboration: Matters of care for visualization design study

D Akbaba, D Lange, M Correll, A Lex… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A common research process in visualization is for visualization researchers to collaborate
with domain experts to solve particular applied data problems. While there is existing …