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Re: Making graphs built from large datasets accessible - help requested

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From: Will Anderson
Date: Jun 19, 2013 9:08AM

Bevi, would you happen to have the contact info for your former
statistician colleague? Seeing that spreadsheet would probably be super
helpful for our team.

Thanks!

-Will


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Years ago I worked with a blind statistician who worked on a gigantic 4000
> cell table.
> One strategy that worked in this situation was to divide up the huge Excel
> spreadsheet into smaller chunks of data in linked worksheets (or tabs).
>
> The final spreadsheet consisted of:
> Tab 1, a table of contents that linked to the other tabs.
> Tab 2, a summary of the individual worksheets/tabs with totals compiling
> the
> data from all the worksheets/tabs.
> Tabs 3, 4, etc. were smaller tables by topic. Tab 3 was blue widgets, Tab 4
> was red widgets, etc.
>
> Not only did it make it easier for him to navigate and use the spreadsheet,
> but sighted users benefitted, too.
>
> -Bevi Chagnon
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of McMorland,
> Gabriel
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:42 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Making graphs built from large datasets accessible -
> help requested
>
> As a blind person, I'm very interested in these problems of communicating
> complex ideas between the blind and sighted worlds. Unfortunately, I don't
> have a solution.
>
> What do users need to do with the information displayed in the data
> visualization?
>
> How do successful blind professionals navigate complex information or big
> data sets? There must be a blind scientist, financial analyst, or
> statistician who has adapted their own techniques for communicating about
> big data.
>
> > > >



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