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Accessible Data Science for the Blind Using R

Three Available Packages Tailored for Visually Impaired R Users There are three packages for the blind R users “sonify” (Siegert & Williams, 2017) for data sonification; “BrailleR” for data textualization (Godfrey, Warren, Murrell, Bilton, & Sorge, 2020); and “tactileR” for data tactualization [Seo (2020); ]. Data Sonification Figure 1: Sample scatter plot. You can sonify the scatterplot above using “sonify” package (Siegert & Williams, 2017) as follows:

G Suite Accessibility

Concise Background Due to the COVID-19 situation, G Suite has been becoming more used remotely at many institutes. Despite its built-in accessibility, many people still have difficulties in configuring the related options. This article will quickly walk you through the nitty-gritty points of the G Suite accessibility settings. Objectives In this article, the following will be described: Toggling accessibility global options for G Suite. Toggling accessibility local options within each Google product.