Data are visual media are commonly used for detecting trends, recognizing anomalies, and finding relationships. While accessibility research has long focused on Blind and Low Vision users, there is a growing need to address the requirements of other communities, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
With Large Language Models, new approaches become possible to support both authors in creating accessible content and consumers in understanding complex information from many different sources — ranging from statistical charts to 2D and 3D artistic works — in education, at work, or at home.
This Special Thematic Session (STS) addresses research to increase our understanding of
- haptification, sonification and tactile representation of data, 2D images, and 3D forms
- interactive systems for navigating and exploring large data sets and complex visual information
- design of data physicalisation and 3D-printed artistic or structural representations
- accessible authoring tools for data visualisations and digital graphics
- data-driven maps and spatial data environments
- interaction with dynamically progressive data sources (such as during production, or in a smarthome
- multi-modal strategies for interpreting 2D and 3D artistic and technical images.
- evaluation methods involving complex data sets and spatially-organised information
Chairs
Gerhard Weber, Dresden University of Technology
Helen Petrie, University of York
Anna Bramwell-Dicks, University of York