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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Olli: An extensible visualization library for screen reader accessibility

M Blanco, J Zong, A Satyanarayan - IEEE VIS Posters, 2022 - vis.mit.edu
Though recent research has explored the design of rich screen reader visualization
experiences, accessible visualizations for blind and low vision users remain rare on the …

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 …

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 …

The accessibility of data visualizations on the web for screen reader users: Practices and experiences during covid-19

D Fan, A Fay Siu, H Rao, GSH Kim, X Vazquez… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data visualization has become an increasingly important means of effective data
communication and has played a vital role in broadcasting the progression of COVID-19 …

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 …

Visualization for the Blind

N Elmqvist - Interactions, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While color vision deficiency has long been on the radar of the visualization discipline,
accessibility in visualization has largely been promoted only by scholars such as Ed …

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 …