SAS Graphics Accelerator: Enhancing Data Visualizations for Users with Visual Impairments
SAS Graphics Accelerator is a free Chrome add-on developed by sas-chrome-admins. It is specifically designed to empower users with visual impairments or blindness to create, explore, and share data visualizations. This tool offers alternative presentations of data visualizations, incorporating enhanced visual rendering, text descriptions, tabular data, and interactive sonification.
With SAS Graphics Accelerator, users can experience data visualizations through non-speech audio, allowing them to perceive important information about graphs. The add-on supports the inclusion of sonification, which conveys crucial graph details through sound. By providing these alternative methods of representation, SAS Graphics Accelerator ensures that individuals with visual impairments can effectively analyze and comprehend data.
Please note that feedback is highly encouraged, as it will contribute to shaping future releases of SAS Graphics Accelerator. Users can send their questions or comments to
SAS Graphics Accelerator requires certain browser permissions to function properly. Specifically, it requires the "Read your browsing history" permission to access alternative presentations of graphs and tables within inline frames (iframes) on web pages and web apps. Additionally, the "Manage your downloads" permission is necessary for users to easily access saved accessible graphs and other files from the Downloads folder.
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