This is the second of four posts sharing some of the things I saw while at the International World Wide Web Conference for w4a.
Several of the projects that I saw showed glimpses of a possible future for screen readers.
I’ve written about screen readers before, and some of the challenges with using them.
Interactive SIGHT
One project interpreted pictures of charts or graphs and created a textual summary of the information shown in them.
I’m still amazed at this. It takes a picture of a graph, not the original raw data, and generates sensible summaries of what it shows.
For example, given this image:
It can generate:
This graphic is about United States. The graphic shows that United States at 35 thousand dollars is the third highest with respect to the dollar value of gross domestic product per capita 2001 among the countries listed. Luxembourg at 44.2 thousand dollars is the highest