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Screen reader friendly graphs? (self.Blind)
submitted by rand0yes0
Hello,
I am a professor who teaches statistics. I've been trying to find a software or website that will produce a readable histogram, dotplot, and boxplot. All of my course images have alt-text, and I've found "singing" line graphs but so far no dice for stats graph. Any help is recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Edit: SAS software has an extension that takes graphics and breaks them down into tabled summaries which are about a page long with multiple descriptions! Fuck yes.
8saku 1 points 2y ago
This is perhaps not what you are looking for, but here is a link to a Python library I made that enables you to represent line graphs and scatter plots as sounds.

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I can add new features if needed, but how should statistical graphs be represented in sound?
rand0yes0 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
Well, if I could make a "wish list" a histogram, dotplot, or boxplot would have an alttext or page that had a table with the given information.for a histogram it would be the bin interval with the frequency, or a boxlpoot would have the summary 5 and outliers. Thanks so much for you link. I'll dive into it tomorrow. :-)
Marconius 1 points 2y ago
Tactile graphics can help, but when presenting digitally, alt text is not enough when it comes to presenting data in an accessible format. You'll need to write a longdesc or provide a supplemental page of plain text/simple HTML that describes the graph and the data within it, exactly the same if you were telling someone about the data points verbally. Once you write down the way you would verbalize the data in the graphs and charts, you have exactly what we'd hear when encountering it with our screen readers. Break complex graphs and charts down, simplify where you can, and provide this extended description via a link adjacent to the graphic or directly within the page containing the chart itself.
rand0yes0 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you for the advice! Its not images I create that I'm interested in. Its images the student would create and then have a conputer describe their own image to them. Someone DMed me the solution that I'll add to my post incase someone has the same question.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Then have them create their own tactile graph at home and do the exercise and then present you with results graphing is still done best tactilly.
rand0yes0 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thats a simple and genius solution! Thank you
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Not a problem they may only give you data points though so info off of their graph but no problems.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
I don’t know if there are any. Honestly tactiles are still the best way to approach this. You may have to change over to a more traditional approach for these students.
rand0yes0 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you for your advice. We are developing an online course, so the tactiles we would usually use arent available.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Hmm... I see.....
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