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Azimuth: Designing Accessible Dashboards for Screen Reader Users
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Dashboards are frequently used to monitor and share data across a breadth of domains including business, finance, sports, public policy, and healthcare, just to name a few. The combination of different components (e.g., key performance indicators, charts, filtering widgets) and the interactivity between components makes dashboards powerful interfaces for data monitoring and analysis. However, these very characteristics also often make dashboards inaccessible to blind and low vision (BLV) users. Through a co-design study with two screen reader users, we investigate challenges faced by BLV users and identify design goals to support effective screen reader-based interactions with dashboards. Operationalizing the findings from the co-design process, we present a prototype system, Azimuth, that generates dashboards optimized for screen reader-based navigation along with complementary descriptions to support dashboard comprehension and interaction. Based on a follow-up study with five BLV participants, we showcase how our generated dashboards support BLV users and enable them to perform both targeted and open-ended analysis. Reflecting on our design process and study feedback, we discuss opportunities for future work on supporting interactive data analysis, understanding dashboard accessibility at scale, and investigating alternative devices and modalities for designing accessible visualization dashboards.
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- Authors
- Srinivasan, A., Harshbarger, T., Hilliker, D., & Mankoff, J.
- Affiliations
- Tableau Software (United States) (US)
- Salesforce (United States) (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2023-10-22
- Pages
- 1-16
- OpenAlex
- W4387793649
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 6
- FWCI
- 7.12
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- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
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- Locations
- International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- NSF (National Science Foundation) (2009977)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Data Visualization and Analytics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Keywords
- screen readers, blind and visually impaired users, co-design, azimuth angle
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