Visualizing for the non‐visual: Enabling the visually impaired to use visualization

J Choi, S Jung, DG Park, J Choo… - Computer Graphics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of visualizations on the web are still stored as raster images, making them
inaccessible to visually impaired users. We propose a deep‐neural‐network‐based …

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 …

SeeChart: enabling accessible visualizations through interactive natural language interface for people with visual impairments

MZI Alam, S Islam, E Hoque - … of the 28th International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Web-based data visualizations have become very popular for exploring data and
communicating insights. Newspapers, journals, and reports regularly publish visualizations …

Guiding novice web workers in making image descriptions using templates

VS Morash, YT Siu, JA Miele, L Hasty… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
This article compares two methods of employing novice Web workers to author descriptions
of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics images to make them accessible to …

Making data-driven articles more accessible: An active preference learning approach to data fact personalization

Y Wang, YS Kim - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data-driven news articles are widely used to communicate societal phenomena with
concrete evidence. These articles are often accompanied by a visualization, helping readers …

Multimodal deep learning using images and text for information graphic classification

E Kim, KF McCoy - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Information graphics, eg line or bar graphs, are often displayed in documents and popular
media to support an intended message, but for a growing number of people, they are …

Comparing Natural Language and Vibro-Audio Modalities for Inclusive STEM learning with blind and low vision users

JR Brown, SA Doore, JK Dimmel, N Giudice… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data representations continue to be produced in predominantly visual forms within STEM
disciplines. The disparity in access to these graphical representations between students …

How Do Low-Vision Individuals Experience Information Visualization?

Y Wang, Y Zhao, YS Kim - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in enhancing the accessibility of
visualizations for people with visual impairments. While much of the research has focused …

An automated approach for the recognition of intended messages in grouped bar charts

R Burns, S Carberry… - Computational …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information graphics (bar charts, line graphs, grouped bar charts, etc) often appear
in popular media such as newspapers and magazines. In most cases, the information …

Survey and empirical comparison of different approaches for text extraction from scholarly figures

F Böschen, T Beck, A Scherp - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
Different approaches have been proposed in the past to address the challenge of extracting
text from scholarly figures. However, until recently, no comparative evaluation of the different …