Accessible Data Analysis
We partner with blind collaborators and study participants to co-design novel interfaces for non-visual data exploration.
The Data & Design Group is working toward a world where everyone has power to shape the socio-technical systems that affect their lives.
We believe critique should take material form—that identifying problems isn’t enough without articulating positive visions for the future.
Our work produces tools, systems, and frameworks that embody ideas about how technology could work differently.
We are part of the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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November 9, 2026Jonathan will be in Boston for IEEE VIS presenting on how blind/sighted data analysts collaborate using multi-modal data representations. He will also be at the AccessViz Workshop presenting Olli with Hypergraphs.
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October 23, 2026Matt will present preliminary work from an ethnography of media addiction recovery spaces at the Media, Religion, and Community conference at CU Boulder.
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July 1, 2026Jonathan is at AICSED presenting Semantic Scaffolding and giving the closing keynote, "The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People."
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May 27, 2026Announcing Olli v3, the latest version of our accessible visualization library!
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May 20, 2026Jonathan and collaborator Frank Elavsky have a new article in Tech Policy Press on how AI is co-opting accessibility infrastructure.
Team
Research themes
Interactive Visualization Tools
We design abstractions and interfaces that help users rapidly conduct data exploration using a broad set of spatial and temporal visualization techniques.
Selected projects
Data Refusal as Design
We develop software and frameworks to support designers and activists in refusing large-scale data collection by powerful actors.
Selected projects
Embodiment and Visibility
We explore how the body works as a contested site of control, where people act on and are acted upon by data.