Publications

Towards softerware: Enabling personalization of interactive data representations for users with disabilities

Frank Elavsky, Marita Vindedal, Ted Gies, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz, Øystein Moseng

CG&A (and IEEE VIS) 2026

Softerware is an approach for designing systems that can be customized and personalized by people with disabilities.

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Bokeh Accessibility Audit Summary

Frank Elavsky, Pavithra Eswaramoorthy, Gabriel Fouasnon, Mateusz Paprocki, Tania Allard

PyCon 2025

We performed an in-depth accessibility evaluation for the interactive data visualization Python library, Bokeh.

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Playing telephone with generative models: verification disability, compelled reliance, and accessibility in data visualization

Frank Elavsky, Cindy Xiong Bearfield

IEEE VIS 2025

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Accessible Data Viz

Doug Schepers, Frank Elavsky

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Journal in Missouri School of Journalism 2024

2 pages of simple, practical tips for making interactive data visualizations more accessible, specifically in the newsroom.

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Challenging Ableism: A Critical Turn Toward Disability Justice in HCI

Cella M. Sum, Franchesca Spektor, Rahaf Alharbi, Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, Erika Devine, Hazel Anneke Dixon, Jared Duval, Tessa Eagle, Frank Elavsky, Kim Fernandes, Leandro S. Guedes, Serena Hillman, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Lynn Kirabo, Tamanna Motahar, Kathryn E. Ringland, Anastasia Schaadhardt, Laura Scheepmaker, Alicia Williamson

XRDS 2024

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Counterpoint: Orchestrating Large-Scale Custom Animated Visualizations

Venkat Sivaraman, Frank Elavsky, Dominik Moritz, Adam Perer

IEEE VIS in St. Pete Beach, Florida, US 2024

Counterpoint helps orchestrate animated data visualizations by providing a robust framework for state management.

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Exploring The Affordances of Game-Aware Streaming to Support Blind and Low Vision Viewers: A Design Probe Study

Noor Hammad, Frank Elavsky, Sanika Moharana, Jessie Chen, Seyoung Lee, Patrick Carrington, Dominik Moritz, Jessica Hammer, Erik Harpstead

ASSETS in St. John's, Canada 2024

Many video games offer accessibility settings and functionality, but what about streamers viewing a stream of a game?

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First Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization

Naimul Hoque, Pramod Chundury, Frank Elavsky, Lucas Nadolskis, Keke Wu, Laura South, Brianna Wimer, Dominik Moritz, Danielle Albers Szafir, Jonathan Lazar, Niklas Elmqvist

IEEE VIS 2024

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Data Navigator: An accessibility-centered data navigation toolkit

Frank Elavsky, Lucas Nadolskis, Dominik Moritz

IEEE VIS in Melbourne, Australia 2023

Data Navigator is a system for creating accessible, navigable data structures.

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The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations

Frank Elavsky

arXiv 2023

What if our research ideas were smaller?

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A New Vision for Data Viz Accessibility

Emily Barone, Frank Elavsky

Nightingale 2023

As our industry becomes more aware of the barriers it creates for blind and visually impaired people, things are starting to change.

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Option-Driven Design: Context, Tradeoffs, and Considerations for Accessibility

Frank Elavsky

arXiv 2023

How should we think about designing for options and accessibility?

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How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability

Frank Elavsky, Cynthia Bennett, Dominik Moritz

EuroVis in Rome, Italy 2022

Chartability is a set of heuristics for testing the accessibility of data visualizations.

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The Right Tools for the Job: Learning and Building for Data Visualization and Accessibility

Frank Elavsky

Do No Harm Guide: Centering Accessibility in Data Visualization in Urban Institute 2022

The tools we use to visualize data can limit the potential of our accessibility. It is important to learn how to pick the right tools for the job.

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Comparing Correspondences: Robert Southey and Willa Cather

Gabriel Hankins, Frank Elavsky

DH 17 in Montréal, Canada 2017

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Digital Wrangling and Visualization for Correspondence Projects

Frank Elavsky, Gabriel Hankins, Jill Gemmill

XSEDE 15 in St. Louis, MO, USA 2015

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