Visualizations are now widely used across disciplines to understand and communicate data.
The benefit of visualizations lies in leveraging our natural visual perception. However, the …

Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate
and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with …

Alternative text is critical in communicating graphics to people who are blind or have low
vision. Especially for graphics that contain rich information, such as visualizations, poorly …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

The textual data of a document is supplemented by the graphical information in it. To make
communication easier, they contain tables, charts and images. However, it excludes a …

Accessing images online is often difficult for users with vision impairments. This population
relies on text descriptions of images that vary based on website authors' accessibility …

For all its potential in supporting data analysis, particularly in exploratory situations,
visualization also creates barriers: accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals …

This paper presents a complete review of different approaches across all components of the
chart image detection and classification up to date. A set of 89 scientific papers is collected …

Sonification can be an effective medium for people with visual impairments to understand
data in visualizations. However, there are no universal design principles that apply to …

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 …