Improving accessibility to statistical graphs: The iGraph-lite system

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 67-74

  Ferres, Leo ^a   Verkhogliad, Petro ^a   Lindgaard, Gitte ^a   Boucher, Louis ^b   Chretien, Antoine ^b   Lachance, Martin ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility (blind and visually impaired); Natural language interaction; Statistical graphs

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCESSIBILITY (BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED); NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION; STATISTICAL GRAPHS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 42149174378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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