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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Thu, Nov 12 2015 1:20PM
Subject: real-world accessible data visualization?
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Hi,
Does anyone have an example of a real-world data visualization that
has been made to be accessible?
Jennison
From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Thu, Nov 12 2015 1:37PM
Subject: Re: real-world accessible data visualization?
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Thanks Jennison. I am interested in this as well. Where I work we have
been swamped with people wanting to use these tools. Some are built to
handle enterprise level data, and others seem like a tool a 5 person shop
put together. The big products basically tell us to go pound sand, and the
other guys look at us like deer in head lights.
Ryan E. Benson
On Nov 12, 2015 3:21 PM, "Jennison Mark Asuncion" <
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an example of a real-world data visualization that
> has been made to be accessible?
>
> Jennison
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From: Jim Allan
Date: Thu, Nov 12 2015 1:42PM
Subject: Re: real-world accessible data visualization?
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IBM had a product the Demonstrated at CSUN a few years ago call jViews that
had all kinds of visualizations that were accessible. They divested it.
don't know if it is still accessible.
http://www.roguewave.com/products-services/visualization/ibm-welcome?cm_mc_uidr003249882514249652394&;cm_mc_sid_5020000047360221
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Ryan E. Benson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:
> Thanks Jennison. I am interested in this as well. Where I work we have
> been swamped with people wanting to use these tools. Some are built to
> handle enterprise level data, and others seem like a tool a 5 person shop
> put together. The big products basically tell us to go pound sand, and the
> other guys look at us like deer in head lights.
>
> Ryan E. Benson
> On Nov 12, 2015 3:21 PM, "Jennison Mark Asuncion" <
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>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have an example of a real-world data visualization that
> > has been made to be accessible?
> >
> > Jennison
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >
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Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
From: Brice
Date: Fri, Nov 13 2015 8:15AM
Subject: Re: real-world accessible data visualization?
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Hi,
I work on the accessibility team at SAS - the market leader in business
analytics software. We are making great progress on accessible data
visualization. Here are a few examples ...
Last year we published a born-accessible astronomy text book that contains
a bar chart, line chart and scatter plot. Here are links to the book and
related resources:
Direct link to the book in Apple's iBooks(r) store
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/reach-for-stars-touch-look/id763516126?mt?>
Promotional Video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uJVX4i1haU&feature=youtu.be>
Ttactile overlays available from National Braille Press
<http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/REACHSTARS.html>;
3d models of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes that can be printed
it on a 3d printer <http://www.thingiverse.com/SASInstituteInc/designs>;
Teacher support page <https://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/astronomy>
Tutorial video for Teachers of the Visually Impaired
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AheMP0oS2A&feature=youtu.be>
We are actively working to incorporate accessibility into an iOS app called
SAS Mobile BI. The app allows you to view reports that have been created by
another SAS product called SAS Visual Analytics. Here are links to the app
and related videos:
Direct link to SAS Mobile BI in the Apple app store
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sas-mobile-bi/id511030524?mt=8>
Quick tour of VoiceOver support in SAS Mobile BI
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2KF4aYiN8>
Accesibility features for users with low vision
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXtbhnaZ--U>
More videos about SAS accessibility
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVBcK_IpFVi9kCxPXz4dd1HO5x_yLLEHJ>
Brice
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion <
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an example of a real-world data visualization that
> has been made to be accessible?
>
> Jennison
> > > > >
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Brice Smith
North Carolina State University, Communication - Public Relations
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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Sun, Nov 29 2015 7:07PM
Subject: Re: real-world accessible data visualization?
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On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 06:20:54 +1000, Jennison Mark Asuncion
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an example of a real-world data visualization that
> has been made to be accessible?
Hi Jennison,
I've been poking at SVG and how to make it accessible. I think for a fair
variety of charts we could do quite a lot.
For a start, a lot of charts are really just graphic versions of a list or
table, and adding the relevant aria for those forms can make them directly
accesssible to screenreader users.
I've been playing with various kinds of tree diagram, and marking those up
as lists and using tabindex and links to make them navigable - and faster
to get around, by following a link - seems to be a pretty helpful thing to
do.
There are various libraries that generate SVG, and I am hoping to start
talking to them in the new year about what needs to happen so their stuff
comes out right by default.
On the other hand, I haven't found any solutions that are really really
solid for everyone, beyond linking to a description made of structured
HTML... which of course has its own issues.
You can look at the things I have worked on in the github repository of
the SVG accessibility Community Group - http://github.com/SVG-access-W3CG/
Use-case-examples are some actual worked examples and notes on what I did
- plus a collection of things to work on whenever anyone has some spare
time...
There are also some test cases - svg-a11y-tests has most of them, for
things like getting title and description, whether you can animate them,
keyboard navigation, etc…
And as well as the stuff Brice pointed to, which I haven't had time to
look at, James Nurthen pointed me to a bunch of stuff that Oracle
generates. I think there is work to do on it, but it at least looks like
they have done some and it isn't the horror that many tools generate.
A shout-out to chartist.js who I believe are looking at how to do this,
too. Which would be good - people use their stuff to make charts.
cheers
chaals
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Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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