- Principal Investigator:
- Giovanni Fusco
COVID-19 pandemic data compatible with screen readers are available at covid.ski.org
So much of the conversation around the COVID-19 pandemic has been about trends: curves and how to flatten them, models, exponential growth, etc.
Most of the graphs and plots commonly found online are not designed having blind users in mind, they are practically invisible to screen reader software.
I've created this website to make the pandemic data sourced by Johns Hopkins University available to people with visual impairments. The information is presented to screen reader users through a textual overview of the data and by using sonification. In its simplest form, sonification consists of mapping a range of values into a range of audible frequencies. If you're curious and want to know what all of this is about, just check it out here: https://covid.ski.org
