Dataviz Accessibility Resources

A non-exhaustive and in-progress list of people and resources in Accessibility and Data Visualization

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People and Articles in Dataviz & Accessibility (Web)

Ryan Bales Ryan Bales Twitter (not accessibility, but good chart design tips)

• Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know | by Ryan Bales

• Designing Charts: principles every designer should know (part 2) - Ryan Bales

Amelia Bellamy (she/her) Amelia Bellamy Twitter

• Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 [Book] (Chapter 17. "Beyond the Visible")

Alison Bert Alison Bert Twitter

• Making charts accessible for people with visual impairments

Silvia Canelón Silvia Canelón Twitter & Liz Hare Liz Hare Twitter

• Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community

• Revealing Room for Improvement [Github Repo]

William Careri (he/him) William Careri Twitter

• Designing for Neurodivergent Audiences | by William Careri | Nightingale | Feb, 2021

Amy Cesal (she/her) Amy Cesal Twitter

• Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization | by Amy Cesal | Nightingale | Jul, 2020

• 5 easy ways to make your data visualization more accessible

Chris DeMartini Chris DeMartini Twitter

• A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part I

Frank Elavsky (he/him) Frank Elavsky Twitter

• Chartability, an auditing framework for data visualizations

• How to Integrate Accessibility into Your Data Viz Workflow | Data Viz Today | May 2021

• Accessibility in DataViz | Tableau World Podcast | May 2021

• Entering Uncharted Territory: Accessible Data Visualization | Accessibility Camp Bay Area | May 2021

• Accessibility is Critical to Data Visualization | NoVA UX | April 2021

• How to Stop Designing Inaccessible Data Visualizations | NICAR 2021 | March 2021

• Are Your Data Visualizations Excluding People? | Outlier Conf | February 2021

• Introduction to Accessible Data Visualization | Knowbility | December 2020

• Data Visualization and Accessibility on the Web | Knowbility | May 2020

• Data Visualization and Accessibility on the Web - slides

Stephanie Evergreen Stephanie Evergreen Twitter

• 508 Compliance & Data Visualization

• 508 Compliance Tools

Sarah L. Fossheim (they/them) Sarah L. Fossheim Twitter

• How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple's with D3.js

• Are Your Data Visualizations Excluding People? | Outlier Conf | February 2021

• What we can learn from Apple's dataviz accessibility

• How (not) to make accessible data visualizations, illustrated by the US presidential election.

• An intro to designing accessible data visualizations

• An introduction to accessible data visualizations with D3.js

Dr. John Gardner Dr. John Gardner Twitter

• Video: “Improving Science Accessibility for the Blind” - August 13, 2014

Luc Guillemot Luc Guillemot Twitter

• How Does This Data Sound?. Make your data accessible, sound up. | by Luc Guillemot

Sarah Higley Sarah Higley Twitter

• Accessibility and Data Visualization — Data Visualization Society [ Communal Notes - Fireside Chat Accessible Data Viz ]

Peter Holmes Peter Holmes Twitter

• Making data visualization accessible — a case study | by Peter Holmes

Sergei Kruger Sergei Kruger Twitter

• Talk: Accessible Charts Done Right
• Slides: Accessible Charts Done Right

Larene Le Gassick (she/her) Larene Le Gassick Twitter

• Are Your Data Visualizations Excluding People? | Outlier Conf | February 2021

Lindsey (she/her) Lindsey Twitter

• Accessibility in d3 Donut Charts

• Accessibility in d3 Bar Charts

Amanda Makulec MPH Amanda Makulec Twitter

• Ten Considerations Before You Create Another Chart About COVID-19 | by Amanda Makulec | Nightingale

• Where Is the Rush to Visualize the Public Health Crisis of Racism?

Melanie Mazanec Melanie Mazanec Twitter

• Data Visualization Accessibility: Where Are We Now, and What’s Next?
• Semiotic's Accessibility Guide
• Data Vis Accessibility Collaboration Doc

Øystein Moseng Øystein Moseng Twitter

• 10 Guidelines for DataViz Accessibility

Øystein Moseng Øystein Moseng Twitter & Ted Gies Ted Gies Twitter

• CSUN 2020 Accessible Visualizations: Maps, Annotations, and Spark lines [SlideShare]

• Highsoft & Elsevier talk about Chart Accessibility at CSUN 2019 [YouTube]

Lisa Charlotte Muth Lisa Charlotte Muth Twitter

• What to Consider When Choosing Colors for Data Visualization

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Twitter

• Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals [Book]

Doug Schepers Doug Schepers Twitter

• Making Inclusive Charts | AccessU | May 2021

• Invisible Visualization – Reinventing Fire (2014)

• Why Accessibility Is at the Heart of Data Visualization (2020)

• DIAGRAM Report: Data Visualization 2019

• A11yNYC June 13 2019 - Data Visualization with Doug Schepers

• Fizz Studio – Accessible Data Visualizations [Company/Product]

Glenna R. Shaw Glenna R. Shaw Twitter

• Creating Accessible Documents in Microsoft Office [LinkedIn Learning]

Ed Summers Ed Summers Twitter

• How we created a culture of accessibility at SAS

Leonie Watson Leonie Watson Twitter

• Accessible SVG Line Graphs
• Accessible SVG Tables

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Organizational Guidance in Dataviz & Accessibility (Web)

Data Visualization Society [Home page] (org) DataVizSociety Twitter run by @AmyCesal and @abmakulec and many others (to be listed)

• Accessibility – Nightingale

Digital Government (USA)

• Data visualizations | Visual design

Government Digital Service (UK) Government Digital Service (UK) Twitter

• Images - Content design: planning, writing and managing content - Guidance - GOV.UK

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Javascript Dataviz Frameworks with Accessibility

Amcharts

• Accessibility in amCharts 4

Chart.js

• Accessibility in Chart.js

Highcharts

• Highcharts Accessibility Demos

Semiotic

• Semiotic Accessibility Guide

Vega & Vega-Lite

• Flight Passengers Example

Visa Chart Components

• Visa Chart Components (VCC) Github
• VCC Accessibility Utilities
• VCC Color Utilities
• VCC Texture Utility

Javascript Tools that can Assist with Visualization Accessibility

Chart2Music

• A visual-agnostic tool to add keyboard navigation and sonification to charts.
• Chart2Music documentation site
• Chart2Music CodePen examples

AutoVizuA11y

• React library that automates the process of adding keyboard navigation, data descriptions, and keyboard shortcuts for data visualizations.
• AutoVizuA11y Github repo
• AutoVizuA11y examples site

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People and Articles in Dataviz & Accessibility (Academia)

Access All Areas [PDF]

Ref: THOMPSON, D. (2005). Access all areas. NATURE, 435, 2.### Visualisation tools for blind people using multiple modalities

Design features of graphs in health risk communications: a systematic review [PDF]

Ref: Ancker, J. S., Senathirajah, Y., Kukafka, R., & Starren, J. B. (2006). Design features of graphs in health risk communication: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13(6), 608-618.

Designing communicative visualization for people with intellectual developmental disabilities [PDF]

Designing communicative visualization for people with intellectual developmental disabilities [PDF Viewer]

Ref: Wu, K., Tanis, S., & Szafir, D. (2019). Designing communicative visualization for people with intellectual developmental disabilities.

Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books

Ref: Gould, B., O'Connell, T., and Freed, G. (2008). Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books.

Generating Seizure-Inducing Sequences with Interactive Visualizations [PDF Viewer]

Ref: South, L., Borkin, M. (2021). Generating Seizure-Inducing Sequences with Interactive Visualizations.

Graph literacy: a cross-cultural comparison [PDF]

Ref: Galesic, M., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2011). Graph literacy: A cross-cultural comparison. Medical Decision Making, 31(3), 444-457.### Design features of graphs in health risk communications: a systematic review

Image Description Template [Tool]

Ref: Morash, V., Siu, Y. -T., Miele, J.A., Hasty, L., & Landau, S. (2015). Guiding novice web workers in making image descriptions using templates.

Producing accessible statistics diagrams in R [PDF]

Ref: Fitzpatrick, D., Godfrey, A. J. R., & Sorge, V. (2017, April). Producing accessible statistics diagrams in R. In Proceedings of the 14th Web for All Conference on the Future of Accessible Work (pp. 1-4).

Reaching Broader Audiences With Data Visualization

Reaching Broader Audiences With Data Visualization [PDF]

Ref: B. Lee, E. K. Choe, P. Isenberg, K. Marriott and J. Stasko, "Reaching Broader Audiences With Data Visualization," in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 82-90, 1 March-April 2020, doi: 10.1109/MCG.2020.2968244.

Sociotechnical Considerations for Accessible Visualization Design [PDF]

Ref: Lundgard, A., Lee, C., & Satyanarayan, A. (2019, October). Sociotechnical Considerations for Accessible Visualization Design. In 2019 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) (pp. 16-20). IEEE.

Statistical Software from a Blind Person's Perspective [PDF]

Ref: Godfrey, A. J. R. (2013). Statistical software from a blind person’s perspective. The R Journal, 5(1), 73-79.### Graph literacy: a cross-cultural comparison

Understanding Data Accessibility for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [Project Page]

Understanding Data Accessibility for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [PDF Viewer]

Ref: Keke Wu et al (2021). Understanding Data Accessibility for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Visualisation tools for blind people using multiple modalities [PDF]

Ref: Brewster, S. (2002). Visualization tools for blind people using multiple modalities. Disability and rehabilitation, 24(11-12), 613-621.

Visualization is Not Enough [Slides]

Ref: Heer, Jeffrey (2019). Visualization is not Enough.

(Note: see the epilogue from slide 97 an onwards.)

Visualizing for the Non‐Visual: Enabling the Visually Impaired to Use Visualization [PDF]

Ref: Choi, J., Jung, S., Park, D. G., Choo, J., & Elmqvist, N. (2019, June). Visualizing for the Non‐Visual: Enabling the Visually Impaired to Use Visualization. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 249-260).

AutoVizuA11y: A Tool to Automate Screen Reader Accessibility in Charts [PDF]

Ref: Duarte D., Costa R., Bizarro P., Duarte C. (2024, June). AutoVizuA11y: a tool to automate screen reader accessibility in charts. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 43, No. 3).