Digital Accessibility in the Age of the Dynamic Data Visualization: A Practicum

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Written By Rivers Laraque-Ho

Rivers Laraque-Ho
2025 American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Medical Writing & Communication Conference

While dynamic and innovative presentations of scientific data advance across the internet, digital accessibility lags behind. Short alt-text image descriptions, even when provided, rarely communicate the details and data points of a complex graph. Data visualizations present unique challenges for writing and encoding image descriptions, but as an increasing amount of scientific research and public health information take on dynamic visual web elements, it is our critical responsibility as writers and analysts to make our work accessible to our colleagues and readers. Learn how to write full descriptions of charts, graphs, and dashboards, and walk away with the resources and technical background to have informed conversations about web accessibility. Participants will have time to practice writing accessible descriptions for example visualizations and discuss the process.

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