Opportunities and challenges for data physicalization

Y Jansen, P Dragicevic, P Isenberg… - proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Physical representations of data have existed for thousands of years. Yet it is now that
advances in digital fabrication, actuated tangible interfaces, and shape-changing displays …

Good intentions are not enough: how informatics interventions can worsen inequality

TC Veinot, H Mitchell, JS Ancker - Journal of the American …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Health informatics interventions are designed to help people avoid, recover from, or cope
with disease and disability, or to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. Unfortunately …

VoxLens: Making online data visualizations accessible with an interactive JavaScript plug-in

A Sharif, OH Wang, AT Muongchan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
JavaScript visualization libraries are widely used to create online data visualizations but
provide limited access to their information for screen-reader users. Building on prior findings …

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 …

Understanding screen-reader users' experiences with online data visualizations

A Sharif, SS Chintalapati, JO Wobbrock… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Online data visualizations are widely used to communicate information from simple statistics
to complex phenomena, supporting people in gaining important insights from data …

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 vision impairments: Redefining the scope of accessible data representations

BL Wimer, L South, K Wu, DA Szafir… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing ubiquity of data in everyday life has elevated the importance of data literacy
and accessible data representations, particularly for individuals with disabilities. While prior …

Clutching at straws: using tangible interaction to provide non-visual access to graphs

D McGookin, E Robertson, S Brewster - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We present a tangible user interface (TUI) called Tangible Graph Builder, that has been
designed to allow visually impaired users to access graph and chart-based data. We …

Evaluating a tool for improving accessibility to charts and graphs

L Ferres, G Lindgaard, L Sumegi, B Tsuji - ACM Transactions on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
This article reports a case study of the iterative design and evaluation of a natural language-
driven assistive technology, iGraph-Lite, providing people who are blind access to line …

“what makes sonification user-friendly?” exploring usability and user-friendliness of sonified responses

A Sharif, OH Wang, AT Muongchan - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Sonification is a commonly used technique to make online data visualizations accessible to
screen-reader users through auditory means. While current sonification solutions provide …