Improving accessibility to statistical graphs: the iGraph-Lite system

  • Authors:
  • Leo Ferres;Petro Verkhogliad;Gitte Lindgaard;Louis Boucher;Antoine Chretien;Martin Lachance

  • Affiliations:
  • Carleton University;Carleton University;Carleton University;Statistics Canada;Statistics Canada;Statistics Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Information is often presented in graphical form. Unfortunately, current assistive technologies such as screen readers are not well-equipped to handle these representations. To provide accessibility to graphs published in ``The Daily" (Statistics Canada's main dissemination venue), we have developed iGraph-Lite, a system that provides short verbal descriptions of the information depicted in graphs and a way to also interact with this information.