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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by cwkoss on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:50AM (#21189164)
On a related note, our app has a lot of charts. What are the best practices for making time-series graphs accessible? I'd imagine just listing the values wouldn't be particularly helpful for graphs with hundreds or more points - and being able to programmatically summarize the interesting takeaways from an arbitrary chart would probably be useful for our sighted customers as well.
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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by Angostura on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:13AM (#21190221)
Just pondering whether there is a system that converts line graphs into series of rising and falling tones, while a voice reads out the x axis markers.

If you have multiple series, you could have different sounds running in parallel - sin wave, square wave or perhaps musical instruments each denoting a different series.

That might actually be usable if there was an automated system for creating them on the fly.

There's also this kind of approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by dbjorge on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:20PM (#21193909)
Highcharts has put a lot of effort into designing charts to be accessible. They did a presentation about it at my workplace a few months ago and I was impressed by the passion and level of user testing they had done.

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/accessibility/accessibility-... is a good starting point to learn more about the sorts of features and considerations they've made (you can find articles, demos, and videos describing more from there)

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by sn on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:12AM (#21192496)
Sarah Newman from prgmr.com here. It's funny you should ask this - we just kicked off an effort a week ago to work on this problem. We don't even have a website yet for the software, but please feel free to watch audiplot.org for future developments.
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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by spondyl on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:06AM (#21189536)
I’d be interested to hear more about this as well
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