Ather Sharif

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GeoVisA11y: An AI-based Geovisualization Question-Answering System for Screen-Reader Users

Geovisualizations are powerful tools for communicating spatial information, but are inaccessible to screen-reader users. To address this limitation, we present GeoVisA11y, an LLM-based question-answering system that makes geovisualizations accessible through natural language interaction. The system supports map re…

CHI '252nd AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

"It Brought Me Joy": Opportunities for Spatial Browsing in Desktop Screen Readers

Blind or low-vision (BLV) screen-reader users have a significantly limited experience interacting with desktop websites compared to non-BLV, i.e., sighted users. This digital divide is exacerbated by the incapability to browse the web spatially—an affordance that leverages spatial reasoning, which sighted users often…

CHI '221st AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

VoxLens: Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible with an Interactive JavaScript Plug-In

JavaScript visualization libraries are widely used to create online data visualizations but provide limited access to their information for screen-reader users. Building on prior findings about the experiences of screen-reader users with online data visualizations, we present VoxLens, an open-source JavaScript plug-in…

CHI '215th+ AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Voicemoji: Emoji Entry Using Voice for Visually Impaired People

Keyboard-based emoji entry can be challenging for people with visual impairments: users have to sequentially navigate emoji lists using screen readers to find their desired emojis, which is a slow and tedious process. In this work, we explore the design and benefits of emoji entry with speech input, a popular text ent…

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