Inclusive data visualization for people with disabilities

Marriott, Kim; Lee, Bongshin; Butler, Matthew; Cutrell, Ed; Ellis, Kirsten; Goncu, Cagatay; Hearst, Marti A.; McCoy, Kathleen F.; Szafir, Danielle Albers

doi:10.1145/3457875

Cited by 42 publications

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“…The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative provides tutorials on providing alternative text for complex images 9 , but success criteria linked to this are either based on general implementation or technical implementation for HTML. Prior work has also mentioned data visualization practitioners fo not have suicient evidence-based guidelines and tools to support them in creating accessible content [44].…”

Section: Accessible Content Guidancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Insights recognised during the audit were discussed by the authors on completion of the audit, and are outlined here. Prior work discusses the need to consider cognitive, motor, and visual impairments when creating inclusive data visualisations for people with disabilities [44], although for our work we want to have a broader outlook by considering all aspects of paper content, as well as situational impairment when reading. The purpose of sharing these details is to emphasise that even with guidance for authors to follow, papers are being published with various inaccessible content elements.…”

Section: Accessibility Challenges Encounteredmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The CHI conference strongly encourages authors to make their papers accessible and provides guidance (sigchi.org/conferences/author-resources/accessibility-guide), which has built upon the work of the SIGACCESS community [2,3,28,76]. Furthermore, there has been a recent call to action for the HCI community to create inclusive data visualisations for people with disabilities [44]. Data visualisations found in research papers can range from simple bar charts to more complex and custom images.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Menzies

Tigwell

Crabb

2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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Academic papers demonstrate inaccessibility despite accessible writing resources made available by SIGACCESS and others. The move from accessibility guidance to accessibility implementation is challenging for authors. Our work focuses on understanding what challenges authors of academic papers face in creating content elements (e.g., tables, charts, images) to better understand how to improve accessibility. We classified 3866 content elements from 330 papers covering a 10-year sample of academic work from ASSETS to understand the variety used. We also reflected on the design choices that make the content elements inaccessible. We then conducted interviews with 13 academic authors from PhD student through to Professor Emeritus that publish within top-tier accessibility and HCI venues to understand the challenges faced in creating accessible content. We found critical issues in how academics understand and implement accessibility while also balancing the visual design of the paper. We provide recommendations for improving accessibility in the academic paper writing process and focus on steps that can be taken by authors, publishers, researchers, and universities.

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Section: Accessible Content Guidancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Accessibility Challenges Encounteredmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Menzies

Tigwell

Crabb

2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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“…Wu et al [80] highlight that people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities may be preyed upon by using unfamiliar and complex visual forms. Marriott et al [53] note that people with motor disabilities can be excluded from data experiences by providing controls that are not adapted to them. We suggest that exclusion can be enriched by adding controls to static charts which require an unwavering hand to view.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We believe this is a critical juncture to carry out this sinister work. Recent efforts to use visualization for social good [1, 3, 4] and the emerging thread of research focused on the ethical issues facing data visualization practitioners [21,29,67] suggest a growing interest in using visualization for the benefit of marginalized people [26,61], disabled people [45,50,53,80], and people in general. We therefore hold that there is an urgent need to intervene now and provide countermeasures to these do-gooder efforts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization for Villainy

McNutt,

Huang,

Koenig

2021

Preprint

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Visualization has long been seen as a dependable and trustworthy tool for carrying out analysis and communication tasks-a view reinforced by the growing interest in applying it to socially positive ends. However, despite the benign light in which visualization is usually perceived, it carries the potential to do harm to people, places, concepts, and things. In this paper, we capitalize on this negative potential to serve an underrepresented (but technologically engaged) group: villains. To achieve these ends, we introduce a design space for this type of graphical violence, which allows us to unify prior work on deceptive visualization with novel datadriven dastardly deeds, such as emotional spear phishing and unsafe data physicalization. By charting this vile charting landscape, we open new doors to collaboration with terrifying domain experts, and hopefully, make the world just a bit worse.

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Towards more effective visualisations in climate services: good practices and recommendations

2022

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Visualisations are often the entry point to information that supports stakeholders’ decision- and policy-making processes. Visual displays can employ either static, dynamic or interactive formats as well as various types of representations and visual encodings, which differently affect the attention, recognition and working memory of users. Despite being well-suited for expert audiences, current climate data visualisations need to be further improved to make communication of climate information more inclusive for broader audiences, including people with disabilities. However, the lack of evidence-based guidelines and tools makes the creation of accessible visualisations challenging, potentially leading to misunderstanding and misuse of climate information by users. Taking stock of visualisation challenges identified in a workshop by climate service providers, we review good practices commonly applied by other visualisation-related disciplines strongly based on users’ needs that could be applied to the climate services context. We show how lessons learned in the fields of user experience, data visualisation, graphic design and psychology make useful recommendations for the development of more effective climate service visualisations. This includes applying a user-centred design approach, using interaction in a suitable way in visualisations, paying attention to information architecture or selecting the right type of representation and visual encoding. The recommendations proposed here can help climate service providers reduce users’ cognitive load and improve their overall experience when using a service. These recommendations can be useful for the development of the next generation of climate services, increasing their usability while ensuring that their visual components are inclusive and do not leave anyone behind.

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Inclusive data visualization for people with disabilities

Cited by 42 publications

References 7 publications

Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Visualization for Villainy

Towards more effective visualisations in climate services: good practices and recommendations

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