What Cognitive Accessibility Reveals About Data Visualization
2.60T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17039.
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SummaryPosition paper arguing that cognitive accessibility offers a stress test for data visualization theory. It identifies three interrelated assumptions shaping the field: what forms of cognition visualization supports, how accessibility is defined and measured, and whose needs are centered in design and evaluation.
Why it mattersNames three specific unexamined assumptions baked into mainstream visualization practice, giving researchers and tool designers a concrete checklist of biases to interrogate.
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