Two videos illustrating challenges and ideas for making chartsaccessible

[Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>]

Hi gang,

Earlier today we talked about the challenges in making complex charts 
accessible.  Having recently gotten desktop video recording working, I 
thought I'd make a couple of video recordings to illustrate both the 
nature of the problem with getting at chart data in a spreadsheet, as 
well as noting the very straightforward way of getting at the underlying 
data of a chart inserted into a word processor document. Something like 
this latter user interface would I think work quite well for getting at 
chart data generally.

See the two videos at:

 http://mediacast.sun.com/share/korn/chart-accessibility-challenge.ogg
 http://mediacast.sun.com/share/korn/chart-in-writer.behavior.ogg
 
Note: you will need a video player capable of playing the open source 
Ogg Theora format.  I recommend the open source VideoLAN player vlc, 
which you can find at: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.