Tag: Accessibility

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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

The Generative AI Blues: Choosing Data Color Schemes with Adobe’s Firefly

Follow these steps to explore color choices with Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model. Plus: the color theory behind the process.
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Taylor Johnston

What a Data Viz Mentor—And The Data Viz Community—Taught Me About Accessibility

My experience with the DVS Mentorship Program gave me technical and practical skills to carry forward.
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Emily Barone & Frank Elavsky

A New Vision for Data Viz Accessibility

As the data viz industry becomes more aware of the barriers it creates for blind and visually impaired people, things are starting to change.
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Ben Willers

Creating a Design System to Prevent Problematic Colour Pairings

The data design system at Economist Impact needed to ensure charts were clear, insightful, and accessible—which led to a new colour tool. 
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Nightingale Editors

Making Visual Accessibility Part of Your Data Viz Practice

Data journalists Jaime Tanner and Johny Cassidy chat about the milestones and challenges they see in making data viz visually accessible.
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Nightingale Editors & datacitron

More than “It Depends”: Behind the scenes on Nightingale magazine issue 3, Guidelines

How did our data viz "Guidelines" issue turn out? Our editors and Creative Director debrief on the behind-the-scenes!
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Nightingale Editors

Visual Accessibility Resources

Looking for guidelines to follow in your data viz accessibility journey? This curated list will help to get you to the next level.
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Amy Cesal

Highlights from the DVS Accessibility Fireside Chat

On July 28, 2021, the Data Visualization Society hosted a Fireside Chat to discuss accessibility in data visualization. I moderated a panel of community members..
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Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick

Loud Numbers and The Natural Lottery

The residents of the town of Nenana in Alaska have an unusual annual tradition. Every March, as the days begin to grow longer and the..
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Benjamin Xiao

Balancing the Tension Between Creative Tradeoffs and Client Expectations

Recently, I had the opportunity to moderate a discussion among Data Visualization Society members about injecting creativity into client-based work. I have always admired those..
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Amy Cesal

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization

Alt text (sometimes called alt tags or alternative text) are written descriptions added to images that convey the meaning of the visual. Good alt text helps more people..