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 …

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

C Jung, S Mehta, A Kulkarni, Y Zhao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alternative text is critical in communicating graphics to people who are blind or have low
vision. Especially for graphics that contain rich information, such as visualizations, poorly …

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 …

Vizability: Enhancing chart accessibility with llm-based conversational interaction

J Gorniak, Y Kim, D Wei, NW Kim - Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Traditional accessibility methods like alternative text and data tables typically
underrepresent data visualization's full potential. Keyboard-based chart navigation has …

Seeing through sounds: Mapping auditory dimensions to data and charts for people with visual impairments

R Wang, C Jung, Y Kim - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sonification can be an effective medium for people with visual impairments to understand
data in visualizations. However, there are no universal design principles that apply to …

Design guidelines and recommendations for multimodal, touchscreen-based graphics

JL Gorlewicz, JL Tennison, PM Uesbeck… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With content rapidly moving to the electronic space, access to graphics for individuals with
visual impairments is a growing concern. Recent research has demonstrated the potential …

SVGPlott: an accessible tool to generate highly adaptable, accessible audio-tactile charts for and from blind and visually impaired people

C Engel, EF Müller, G Weber - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Charts, such as bar or line charts, are used in many different areas, newspapers, in
education, and other areas of life. Accessing charts or understanding data is a main …

Chart4blind: An intelligent interface for chart accessibility conversion

O Moured, M Baumgarten-Egemole, K Müller… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In a world driven by data visualization, ensuring the inclusive accessibility of charts for Blind
and Visually Impaired (BVI) individuals remains a significant challenge. Charts are usually …

Tactile presentation of network data: Text, matrix or diagram?

Y Yang, K Marriott, M Butler, C Goncu… - proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Visualisations are commonly used to understand social, biological and other kinds of
networks. Currently we do not know how to effectively present network data to people who …

Towards Enhancing Low Vision Usability of Data Charts on Smartphones

Y Prakash, PA Khan, AK Nayak… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The importance of data charts is self-evident, given their ability to express complex data in a
simple format that facilitates quick and easy comparisons, analysis, and consumption …