TactualPlot: spatializing data as sound using sensory substitution for touchscreen accessibility

P Chundury, Y Reyazuddin, JB Jordan… - … on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile graphics are one of the best ways for a blind person to perceive a chart using touch,
but their fabrication is often costly, time-consuming, and does not lend itself to dynamic …

A11yBoard: Making Digital Artboards Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users

Z Zhang, JO Wobbrock - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Digital artboards, which hold objects rather than pixels (eg, Microsoft PowerPoint and
Google Slides), remain largely inaccessible for blind and low-vision (BLV) users. Building on …

Understanding Strategies and Challenges of Conducting Daily Data Analysis (DDA) Among Blind and Low-vision People

C Jiang, W Lei, E Kuang, T Han, M Fan - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Being able to analyze and derive insights from data, which we call Daily Data Analysis
(DDA), is an increasingly important skill in everyday life. While the accessibility community …

“Let the Volcano Erupt!”: Designing Sonification to Make Oceanography Accessible for Blind and Low Vision Students in Museum Environment

H Li, J Bellona, L Smith, A Bower… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Exploring the potential of data sonification, our study focuses on enhancing accessibility to
oceanographic data for blind and low vision (BLV) students in museums. Five auditory …

" Do You Want Me to Participate or Not?": Investigating the Accessibility of Software Development Meetings for Blind and Low Vision Professionals

Y Cha, I Figueira, J Ayala, EJ Edwards… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Scholars have investigated numerous barriers to accessible software development tools and
processes for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) developers. However, the research community …

Introducing STRAUSS: A flexible sonification Python package

JW Trayford, CM Harrison - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.16847, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce STRAUSS (Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound
Synthesis) a modular, self-contained and flexible Python sonification package, operating in …

Umwelt: Accessible Structured Editing of Multi-Modal Data Representations

J Zong, I Pedraza Pineros, M Chen, D Hajas… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We present Umwelt, an authoring environment for interactive multimodal data
representations. In contrast to prior approaches, which center the visual modality, Umwelt …

Notably Inaccessible—Data Driven Understanding of Data Science Notebook (In) Accessibility

V Potluri, S Singanamalla, N Tieanklin… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Computational notebooks, tools that facilitate storytelling through exploration, data analysis,
and information visualization, have become the widely accepted standard in the data …

Co-designing new keyboard and mouse solutions with people living with motor impairments

R Cossovich, S Hodges, J Kang… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this report we share a co-design process for developing more accessible alternatives to
traditional keyboard and mouse interfaces, involving individuals with motor impairments. We …

Plug-and-Play Physical Computingand Device Prototyping with Jacdac

J Devine, S Hodges, T Ball, M Moskal… - … : Mobile Computing and …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Physical computing involves the creation of interactive digital devices that sense and
respond to the world around them [1]. Typically, sensors, actuators and communications …