Getting to the Core of Data Visualization Accessibility

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A clear, actionable claim: prioritize captions as immediate fix because sonification and tactile lithophanes lack scalability and standards. Demonstrations include a screen reader reading every slice, Highcharts sonification pings for seismic data, and a tactile lithophane used by Mona Minkara (diagnosed at seven, later earned a PhD). Proposed implementation maps dashboard semantics to HTML headings (H1/H2/H3 structure) and caption anatomy that summarizes trends rather than reading every data point.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:26EXAMPLE 2
3. 4:51EXAMPLE 3a and 3b
4. 29:42Caption writing overview
5. 32:27Graph title
6. 34:18Graph type
7. 34:57Caption 2: Data clarification
8. 36:10Caption 2: Orientation for Data-Summary

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