Visualization accessibility in the wild: Challenges faced by visualization designers

SCS Joyner, A Riegelhuth, K Garrity, YS Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Data visualizations are now widely used across many disciplines. However, many of them
are not easily accessible for visually impaired people. In this work, we use three-staged …

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 …

Sociotechnical considerations for accessible visualization design

A Lundgard, C Lee… - 2019 IEEE visualization …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accessibility-the process of designing for people with disabilities (PWD)-is an important but
under-explored challenge in the visualization research community. Without careful attention …

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 …

Towards understanding sensory substitution for accessible visualization: An interview study

P Chundury, B Patnaik, Y Reyazuddin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For all its potential in supporting data analysis, particularly in exploratory situations,
visualization also creates barriers: accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals …

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 …

The next billion users of visualization

A Jena, M Butler, T Dwyer, K Ellis… - IEEE Computer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We argue that visualization research has overwhelmingly focused on users from the
economically developed world. However, billions of people around the world are rapidly …

Beyond alternative text and tables: comparative analysis of visualization tools and accessibility methods

NW Kim, G Ataguba, SC Joyner… - Computer graphics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern visualization software and programming libraries have made data visualization
construction easier for everyone. However, the extent of accessibility design they support for …

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) …

Data is personal: Attitudes and perceptions of data visualization in rural pennsylvania

EM Peck, SE Ayuso, O El-Etr - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Many of the guidelines that inform how designers create data visualizations originate in
studies that unintentionally exclude populations that are most likely to be among the'data …