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Umwelt is a new a system that enables blind and low-vision users to author accessible, interactive charts representing data in three modalities: visualization, textual description, and sonification.
Open-source software written by MIT Morningside Academy of Design Fellow Jonathan Zong and others in the MIT Visualization Group improves accessibility of online graphics for blind users.
Researchers worked with visually impaired London academic Daniel Hajas on prototypes to help people to access data using screen-reading tech.
Researchers have developed prototypes of data visualizations that enable blind and low-vision people who use screen readers to more easily explore information and gain deeper insights about chart data. They plan to turn these prototypes into a software tool that could help designers make data visualizations accessible and navigable.