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Ferres, Leo, Verkhogliad, Petro, Sumegi, Livia, Boucher, Louis, Lachance, Martin and Lindgaard, Gitte (2008): A syntactic analysis of accessibility to a corpus of statistical graphs. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility W4A 2008. pp. 37-44. Available online

“Designing graphs and charts visually by means of graphing applications such as OpenOffice or MS Excel is extremely efficient and cost-effective. However, one of the drawbacks of such approach is that graphs are sometimes involuntarily made less accessible by, for instance, using a text box as title. In this paper we evaluate a corpus of 120 ecologically-valid statistical graphs for accessibility problems, discuss possible algorithms to solve these problems and finally propose the OM (Object Model) Principle, which states that any digital object is made more accessible by simply using the application's model for that object: for instance, the TITLE field for the title text.”

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Ferres, Leo, Verkhogliad, Petro, Lindgaard, Gitte, Boucher, Louis, Chretien, Antoine and Lachance, Martin (2007): Improving accessibility to statistical graphs: the iGraph-Lite system. In: Ninth Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies 2007. pp. 67-74. Available online

“Information is often presented in graphical form. Unfortunately, current assistive technologies such as screen readers are not well-equipped to handle these representations. To provide accessibility to graphs published in "The Daily" (Statistics Canada's main dissemination venue), we have developed iGraph-Lite, a system that provides short verbal descriptions of the information depicted in graphs and a way to also interact with this information.”

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