Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Improving Accessibility to Statistical Graphs: The iGraph-Lite System

  Leo Ferres, Petro Verkhogliad, Gitte Lindgaard, Louis Boucher, Antoine Chretien, Martin Lachance (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  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…

  • data visualization accessibility
  • graph accessibility
  • natural language generation
  • screen readers
  • blindness
  • statistics
  • non-visual interaction
  • information accessibility

• Producing Accessible Statistics Diagrams in R

  Donal Fitzpatrick, A. Jonathan R. Godfrey, Volker Sorge (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  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…

  • data visualization accessibility
  • STEM accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • SVG
  • statistics
  • R programming
  • accessible diagrams
  • hierarchical navigation
  • BrailleR
  • interactive exploration
  • education accessibility
  • charts
  • graphs