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TAIG: textually accessible information graphics

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Information graphics (such as bar charts and line graphs) are an important component of many documents. Unfortunately, these representations present serious access challenges for individuals with sight impairments. This paper describes our ongoing research on the TAIG system which is a part of a larger system whose long term goal is to enable visually impaired users to gain access to the content of information graphics and therefore benefit from these valuable resources. TAIG first provides the user with a brief textual summary of the graphic with the inferred overall message as the core content, and then will respond to follow-up questions which may request further detail about the graphic.

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S. Demir, S. Carberry, and S. Elzer. Effectively realizing the inferred message of an information graphic. In Proc. of RANLP, 2007.
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S. Demir, S. Carberry, and K. F. McCoy. Generating textual summaries of bar charts. In Proc. of INLG, 2008.
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S. Elzer, E. Schwartz, S. Carberry, D. Chester, S. Demir, and P. Wu. Accessible bar charts for visually impaired users. In Proc. of TELEHEALTH/AT, 2008.
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L. Ferres, P. Verkhogliad, G. Lindgaard, L. Boucher, A. Chretien, and M. Lachance. Improving accessibility to statistical graphs: the igraph-lite system. In Proc. of ASSETS, 2007.

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2008
332 pages
ISBN:9781595939760
DOI:10.1145/1414471
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  1. accessibility
  2. assistive technology
  3. graph summarization

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  • (2016)DemonstrationProceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/2982142.2982154(319-320)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2016
  • (2010)Evaluating text descriptions of mathematical graphsProceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility10.1145/1878803.1878860(259-260)Online publication date: 25-Oct-2010

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