Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged data visualization accessibility.
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Improving Accessibility to Statistical Graphs: The iGraph-Lite System
This paper from Carleton University and Statistics Canada presents iGraph-Lite, a system that makes statistical graphs accessible to blind and visually impaired people by generating natural language descriptions and providing an interactive navigatio…
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Producing Accessible Statistics Diagrams in R
This paper presents a system for making statistical diagrams accessible to blind users by generating semantically enriched SVG graphics from the R statistical computing environment. The core problem is that statistical graphics — bar charts, histogra…
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Understanding and Improving Drilled-Down Information Extraction from Online Data Visualizations for Screen-Reader Users
This extended abstract presents enhancements to VoxLens, an open-source JavaScript plug-in that improves the accessibility of online data visualizations for screen-reader users (SRUs) through a multimodal approach. Over 7.6 million people in the Unit…
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Increasing Agency of Screen-Reader Users in Consuming Information From Online Data Visualizations
This paper addresses a fundamental equity problem in data visualization accessibility: screen-reader users are limited to consuming only the information that visualization creators choose to provide, with no agency to customize what they hear. Prior …
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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…