Information graphics: an untapped resource for digital libraries
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving accessibility to statistical graphs: the iGraph-Lite system
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Generating textual summaries of bar charts
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Accessible bar charts for visually impaired users
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Evaluating text descriptions of mathematical graphs
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Information graphics (such as bar charts and line graphs) are an important component of many documents. Unfortunately, these representations present serious access challenges for individuals with sight impairments. This paper describes our ongoing research on the TAIG system which is a part of a larger system whose long term goal is to enable visually impaired users to gain access to the content of information graphics and therefore benefit from these valuable resources. TAIG first provides the user with a brief textual summary of the graphic with the inferred overall message as the core content, and then will respond to follow-up questions which may request further detail about the graphic.