Accessibility and Visualization: Best (and worst!) Practices
taught by: Frank Elavsky
Session Summary
Ever wondered how to catch accessibility barriers in interactive charts and graphs? How about co-designing visualizations with people with disabilities? What about designing and engineering using both established and emerging tools and practices? This workshop is for you.
Description
This workshop is a thorough, hands-on introduction to accessibility and data visualization. Participants don't need to have any pre-requisite coding skills for attendance, although familiarity either with accessibility or with data, charts, graphs, and data visualizations may make some of the topics easier. While the topic of data visualization is considered advanced, beginners to accessibility and/or data visualization are absolutely welcome and encouraged to attend!
Practical Skills
- An understanding of what accessibility is and how to identify inaccessibility in visualizations.
- Hands-on experience designing data visualizations with accessibility in mind.
- Learn engineering and development best-practices and how to navigate when/how/why (or if ever) modern AI comes into the picture.