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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.
After finally removing the last two fasteners from the canister and nearly 4 months after it was dropped by OSIRIS-REx in the Utah desert, the curation
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.
A new tool helps scientists develop machine-learning models that generate richer, more detailed captions for charts, and vary the level of complexity of a caption based on the needs of users. This could help improve accessibility for people with visual disabilities.
Saliency cards, developed at MIT and IBM, seek to describe a machine-learning model’s behavior and to help users quickly compare methods so they can choose the right one for their task.