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For Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD tomorrow, I hope that our publicly available work on accessibility and visualization is a helpful resource. This isn't a short and sweet top-5 list of things to do but a richly documented evaluation of the ecosystem of a data science tool.

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁@frank.computer

I'm officially announcing a massive collaboration that I've been able to participate in: evaluating the accessibility of the Python visualization library, @bokeh.org! 🎉 In collab with folks from @quansight.com and @anacondainc.bsky.social, we present 76 documented findings plus our summary here:

bokeh-a11y-audit.readthedocs.ioBokeh Accessibility Audit SummaryFindings and recommendations to make Bokeh tools and plots more accessible

14/5/25, 6:33 pm5 reposts13 likes

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁

@frank.computer

14 May 2025

I hope this can be a resource for people who are really serious (or want to become really serious) about making visualizations more accessible.

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁

@frank.computer

14 May 2025

We have a plethora of short articles, brief guidelines, and lists of "top 5 things." People can easily look up that we need to have good color schemes, add alt text, and include tables. But we don't have a resource that dives really deep (until now!). This is systematic, documented, and thorough!

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁

@frank.computer

14 May 2025

I hope our public work helps others follow. I want to inspire accessibility efforts for design systems with charts + graphs, data science libraries + tools, and data-intensive applications + products. Anyone who builds interactive visualizations or makes tools for others to build, this is for you!