Smartphones have had a revolutionary impact on blind professionals, essentially putting a screen reader in everyone's pockets. As a result, more than 46% of blind people own one. But how can we use it for accessible vis?

At #ieeevis 2023, Pramod Chundury, Yasmin Reyazuddin, J. Bern Jordan, Jonathan Lazar, and I will be presenting "TactualPlot: Spatializing Data as Sound using Sensory Substitution for Touchscreen Accessibility". Our goal is to basically turn phones into tactile graphics. 🧵 1/