Evaluating a tool for improving accessibility to charts and graphs

ASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 83-90

  Ferres, Leo ^a   Lindgaard, Gitte ^b   Sumegi, Livia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY (BLIND AND VISUALLY-IMPAIRED); ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CHARTS AND GRAPHS; COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION AND INTERACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NUMERICAL DATA; STATISTICAL GRAPHS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 78650608078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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