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From: McMorland, Gabriel
Date: Jun 19, 2013 10:10AM


Will,

You may want to contact the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, "A non-profit R&D organization dedicated to achieving media access equality for people with disabilities.". They don't have anything about big data published on their website, but this problem seems like something they would have useful insight on. Also, it might bring their research team into the conversation.

http://ncam.wgbh.org/

Archimedes project at Stanford, researching new interfaces for disabled users.
http://archimedes.hawaii.edu/

Also, National Federation of the Blind
www.nfb.org

American council of the blind
www.acb.org


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Will Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Making graphs built from large datasets accessible - help requested

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-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [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.
>
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>



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