Skip to main content

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual UW GIS Symposium: VoxLens: Making Geospatial Data Visualizations Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual UW GIS Symposium
VoxLens: Making Geospatial Data Visualizations Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeUniversity of Washington GIS Symposiums
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

Show the following:

  • Annotations
  • Resources
Search within:

Adjust appearance:

  • font
    Font style
  • color scheme
  • Margins
table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Contributors
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Keynote
  6. Lightning Talks
    1. Unlocked Maps: A Web-Based Map for Visualizing the Real-Time Accessibility of Urban Rail Transit Stations
    2. VoxLens: Making Geospatial Data Visualizations Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users
    3. The Folk Linguistic Online Mapping tool (FLOM) - Challenges, Opportunities and Next Steps
    4. Mobile Mapping System for 3D Road Asset Inventory of the Rural Road Network in Thailand
    5. Bird Friendly Campus: Analyzing Bird Window Collision Data
    6. Co-Seismic Landslides and Reactivations
    7. Assessing Environmental and Social Vulnerabilities to Natural Hazards in Coastal Communities: A Case Study of the U.S. Gulf Coast
    8. Using Location Data From Smartphones to Time a Small Marathon
    9. Environmental Justice in LA County Through the Lens of Remote Sensing

VoxLens: Making Geospatial Data Visualizations Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users

Ather Sharif, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

JavaScript visualization libraries are widely used to create online data visualizations but provide limited access to their information for screen-reader users. Building on my prior findings about the experiences of screen-reader users with online data visualizations, I present VoxLens, an open-source JavaScript plug-in that with a single line of code improves the accessibility of online data visualizations for screen-reader users using a multi-modal approach. Specifucally, VoxLens enables screen-reader users to obtain a holistic summary of presented information, play sonified versions of the data, and interact with visualizations in a drill-down manner using voice-activated commands. VoxLens improves the accuracy of information extraction and interaction time by 164% and 50%, respectively, over existing conventional interaction with online data visualizations.

Slide from VoxLens

Annotate

Next Chapter
The Folk Linguistic Online Mapping tool (FLOM) - Challenges, Opportunities and Next Steps
PreviousNext
Symposiums
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org