A non-exhaustive and in-progress list of people and resources in Accessibility and Data Visualization.

[Latest update: Feb 2026]

• Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know | by Ryan Bales

• Designing Charts: principles every designer should know (part 2) - Ryan Bales

• Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 [Book] (Chapter 17. "Beyond the Visible")

• Making charts accessible for people with visual impairments

• Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community

• Revealing Room for Improvement [Github Repo]

• Designing for Neurodivergent Audiences | by William Careri | Nightingale | Feb, 2021

• Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization | by Amy Cesal | Nightingale | Jul, 2020

• 5 easy ways to make your data visualization more accessible

• A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part I

• Guiding Principles for Data Accessibility | Kent Eisenhuth & Gerrit de Vries | Material Design

• Writing Alt Text for Charts | Material Design

• How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design | Smashing Magazine

• An Accessibility-First Approach to Chart Visual Design | Kent Eisenhuth & Kai Chang | Smashing Magazine

• Chartability, an auditing framework for data visualizations

• Chartability's workbook (includes all test, tools, and details)

• A free, 200+ page audit of Bokeh (python visualization library) using Chartability

• Data Navigator, a generic tool for making visual data structures navigable

• "Accessibility in visualization," a free and open, 5-chapter, 20-module online course

• "Centering accessibility in visualization" (free book)

• (Keynote) On "Tool-making for accessibility and visualization" at DDD Brisbane '25

• (Talk) On "Softerware" at Outlier '25

• (Talk) Accessibility and visualization at NACIS '23

• 508 Compliance & Data Visualization

• 508 Compliance Tools

• How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple's with D3.js

• Are Your Data Visualizations Excluding People? | Outlier Conf | February 2021

• What we can learn from Apple's dataviz accessibility

• How (not) to make accessible data visualizations, illustrated by the US presidential election.

• An intro to designing accessible data visualizations

• An introduction to accessible data visualizations with D3.js

• Video: “Improving Science Accessibility for the Blind” - August 13, 2014

• How Does This Data Sound?. Make your data accessible, sound up. | by Luc Guillemot

• Accessibility and Data Visualization — Data Visualization Society [ Communal Notes - Fireside Chat Accessible Data Viz ]

• Making data visualization accessible — a case study | by Peter Holmes

• Talk: Accessible Charts Done Right
• Slides: Accessible Charts Done Right

• Are Your Data Visualizations Excluding People? | Outlier Conf | February 2021

• Accessibility in d3 Donut Charts

• Accessibility in d3 Bar Charts

• Ten Considerations Before You Create Another Chart About COVID-19 | by Amanda Makulec | Nightingale

• Where Is the Rush to Visualize the Public Health Crisis of Racism?

• Data Visualization Accessibility: Where Are We Now, and What’s Next?
• Semiotic's Accessibility Guide

• 10 Guidelines for DataViz Accessibility

• CSUN 2020 Accessible Visualizations: Maps, Annotations, and Spark lines [SlideShare]

• Highsoft & Elsevier talk about Chart Accessibility at CSUN 2019 [YouTube]

• What to Consider When Choosing Colors for Data Visualization

• Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals [Book]

• Making Inclusive Charts | AccessU | May 2021

• Invisible Visualization – Reinventing Fire (2014)

• Why Accessibility Is at the Heart of Data Visualization (2020)

• DIAGRAM Report: Data Visualization 2019

• A11yNYC June 13 2019 - Data Visualization with Doug Schepers

• Fizz Studio – Accessible Data Visualizations [Company/Product]

• Creating Accessible Documents in Microsoft Office [LinkedIn Learning]

• How we created a culture of accessibility at SAS

• Accessible SVG Line Graphs
• Accessible SVG Tables

• Note: Join their slack and the "a11y-data-viz-metrics" channel for a live community of support!

• Data Visualization Society [Home page]
• Note: Join their slack and the "topic-accessibility" channel for a live community of support!
• Accessibility – Nightingale

• Data visualizations | Visual design

• Accessibility for Data Visualizations, Charts, and Graphs

• Goverment Digital Service Images - Content design: planning, writing and managing content - Guidance - GOV.UK
• Analysis Function Central Team (Office for National Statistics, UK) Introduction to data visualization (includes notes on accessibility)

• Providing More Accessible Data Visualizations

• Accessible Data Visualizations Guide

• Accessibility in amCharts 4

• Accessibility in Chart.js

• Accessibility in Flourish

• Highcharts Accessibility Demos

• Semiotic Accessibility Guide

• Flight Passengers Example

Fully free and open-source design system library of "accessibility-first" data visualization components.

• Visa Chart Components (VCC) Github
• VCC Accessibility Utilities
• VCC Color Utilities
• VCC Texture Utility

React library that automates the process of adding keyboard navigation, data descriptions, and keyboard shortcuts for data visualizations.

• AutoVizuA11y Github repo
• AutoVizuA11y examples site

A visual-agnostic tool to add keyboard navigation and sonification to charts.

• Chart2Music documentation site
• Chart2Music CodePen examples

A robust toolkit for adding rich, customizable navigation to graphics and images.

• Data Navigator
• Demo making Vega-Lite more accessible

Olli is an open-source library for converting data visualizations into accessible text structures for screen reader users.

• Olli
• Examples

NOTE: Previously, this section contained a long-form list of research papers and research-related artifacts that involved visualization accessiblity. However, keeping this list up-to-date has been cumbersome. Too many great papers have not been included while (for the sake of archival purposes), I've kept links to older papers in here.

Instead, I (Frank Elavsky) now maintain a Google doc for my research assistants that contains a shortlist of the best research papers at this intersection as well as guides for learning how to effectively read research papers. This document is the best place to start (and it will be maintained moving forward):

• Google doc with the top research papers on visualization and accessibility