Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged chart accessibility.
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Making Charts Speak: LLM-Based Conversational Chart Question Answering for Blind and Low-Vision Users
Das, Tarun, and Mueller present GraphWhisper, a conversational system that lets blind and low-vision (BLV) users explore chart images (JPEG, PNG) through natural-language questions, without requiring the chart data to be pre-structured in formats lik…
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Improving Low-Vision Chart Accessibility via On-Cursor Visual Context
Charts remain largely inaccessible to Low-Vision Individuals (LVI) because reading them requires holding both fine-grained data details and the broader visual context — axes, legend, grid lines, overview — in view at the same time, a task that magnif…
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Benthic: Perceptually Congruent Structures for Accessible Charts and Diagrams
This paper introduces Benthic, a system that creates perceptually congruent screen reader structures for graphical representations such as charts and diagrams. The core insight is that graphical representations communicate meaning through visual stru…
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Understanding Low Vision Graphical Perception of Bar Charts
This paper investigates how low-vision users who rely on screen magnifiers perceive and interact with bar charts, addressing a significant gap in data visualization accessibility research. While studies on chart perception have extensively examined s…