@KentTheHuth

RSA Fellow; Author; Advisory Board Member; Datavis Lead @google; I love visual languages, design systems, data accessibility, Legos and architecture.

 Philadelphia, PA
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Joined February 2009
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Curious about how to write effective alt text for charts and graphs? My colleagues and I recently contributed some new guidleines for Material Design. Check it out: m3.material.io/foundations/c… #DataVisualization #Datavis #DataAccessibility #A11y #MaterialDesign

Alt text – Material Design 3

Effective alt text describes the meaning and context of images for screen reader users

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Thanks for the shout-out @smashingmag! It's been an honor sharing UX articles that focus on topics like #datavisualization, #accessibility and #architecture over the past 10 years.
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@smashingmag25 Mar 2024
Our Person of the Week is a Datavis Lead at Google, passionate about visual languages, design systems, and data accessibility. Please give a warm round of applause for... Kent Eisenhuth! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @KentTheHuth! #smashingcommunity
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Our Person of the Week is a Datavis Lead at Google, passionate about visual languages, design systems, and data accessibility. Please give a warm round of applause for... Kent Eisenhuth! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @KentTheHuth! #smashingcommunity
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I had a blast sharing a talk on the importance of #datavisualization and #accessibility to a hall full of design, computer science, business and psychology students at @BrownUniversity today. I especially enjoyed the discussion at the end. The students' energy was incredible!
Title of slide of my presentation, Lessons Learned From Our Accessibility-First Approach to Data Visualization

ALT Title of slide of my presentation, Lessons Learned From Our Accessibility-First Approach to Data Visualization

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I'm excited to return to Philly to share a brand new @DataVizSociety talk, Storytelling with AI and Pictures: A Tale of Connectivity in Outer Space. If you like #storytelling, #space travel, #satellites, #lasers, #MachineLearning and #datavis, then this talk is for you! meetup.com/philadelphia-data…
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Chart accessibility is difficult! Check out my @smashingmag article on how WCAG standards can empower good design rather than constrain it. #Datavisualization #dataaccessibility #a11y #inclusivedesign smashingmagazine.com/2024/02…

How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine

Accessibility for data visualization extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create an experience that’s actually useful. This article focuses on techniques for creating...

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Ozan Öztaskiran@ozanoz19 Dec 2023
And some useful resources on accessible data visualization: ✢ An intro to designing accessible data visualizations - @sarahfossheim fossheim.io/writing/posts/ac… ✢ Which fonts to use for your charts and tables - @lisacmuth blog.datawrapper.de/fonts-fo… ✢ What to consider when using text in data visualizations- @lisacmuth blog.datawrapper.de/text-in-… ✢ An Accessibility-First Approach To Chart Visual Design - @KentTheHuth and @syntagmatic smashingmagazine.com/2022/07… ✢ How to choose an interpolation for your color scale -@lisacmuth blog.datawrapper.de/interpol…
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Join me for a @RethinkTalks workshop on all things #Datavis. This includes an intro to human perception, chart usage, designing dashboards, datavis in the age of #AI and #accessibility. rethinkhq.com/programs/story…
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Thanks @UU_UXpodcast for a great discussion on accessible data visualization, my book, Drawing Product Ideas, and much more!
Understanding Users: a UX Podcast@UU_UXpodcast5 Jul 2023
How can #product & #ux #designers ensure that #data #visualisations are accessible to #users in all contexts? How can #AI help designers make better, more #accessible choices for visualising data? Author, speaker and Design Lead @KentTheHuth from #google shares his wisdom🎧🎙
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How can #product & #ux #designers ensure that #data #visualisations are accessible to #users in all contexts? How can #AI help designers make better, more #accessible choices for visualising data? Author, speaker and Design Lead @KentTheHuth from #google shares his wisdom🎧🎙
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In honor of #GAAD2023, here are some accessible datavis resources created by my colleagues and I: Material Design's Top Tips For Data Accessibility material.io/blog/data-visual… An Accessibility-First Approach to Chart Visual Design (@smashingmag Case Study) smashingmagazine.com/2022/07… It's Data Accessibility, Not Data Visualization. (ISVIS 2022) youtube.com/watch?v=WlyADrqb…
Data Accessibility is difficult. Charts, graphs and visualizations will block accessibility audits. Build a diverse team and work with people who use assistive technology. Apply a combination of fills and borders to focus on what matters. Consider accessibility first to get to the best possible design. Consider using other keys, shortcuts and alternative methods for helping people quickly find answers to questions they’re asking of the data. Consider providing an accessible way to view the data in a table or spreadsheet. Data sonification can be part of the chart’s core experience. Designing for accessibility can benefit everyone.

ALT Data Accessibility is difficult. Charts, graphs and visualizations will block accessibility audits. Build a diverse team and work with people who use assistive technology. Apply a combination of fills and borders to focus on what matters. Consider accessibility first to get to the best possible design. Consider using other keys, shortcuts and alternative methods for helping people quickly find answers to questions they’re asking of the data. Consider providing an accessible way to view the data in a table or spreadsheet. Data sonification can be part of the chart’s core experience. Designing for accessibility can benefit everyone.

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So excited to see data accessibility getting some love in the next issue of Nightingale! Looking forward to the article @DataVizSociety
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Big thanks to @DataVizSociety and @OutlierConf for inviting me to speak at #outlier2023. It was an honor to share our lessons learned from our accessibility-first approach to #datavis. #inclusivedesign #a11y #dataaccessibility #Datavisualization
Data Accessibility is difficult. Charts, graphs and visualizations will block accessibility audits. Build a diverse team and work with people who use assistive technology. Apply a combination of fills and borders to focus on what matters. Consider accessibility first to get to the best possible design. Consider using other keys, shortcuts and alternative methods for helping people quickly find answers to questions they’re asking of the data. Consider providing an accessible way to view the data in a table or spreadsheet. Data sonification can be part of the chart’s core experience. Designing for accessibility can benefit everyone.

ALT Data Accessibility is difficult. Charts, graphs and visualizations will block accessibility audits. Build a diverse team and work with people who use assistive technology. Apply a combination of fills and borders to focus on what matters. Consider accessibility first to get to the best possible design. Consider using other keys, shortcuts and alternative methods for helping people quickly find answers to questions they’re asking of the data. Consider providing an accessible way to view the data in a table or spreadsheet. Data sonification can be part of the chart’s core experience. Designing for accessibility can benefit everyone.

Lessons Learned From our Accessibility-First Approach to Data Visualization

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I had a wonderful evening sharing my data accessibility talk and more about my book, Drawing Product Ideas, at @VillanovaU this week. Thanks to the students and faculty for one of the best Q&A sessions I've ever had! #DataVisualization #DataAccessibility #UX #DesignThinking #DrawingProductIdeas
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Had so much fun discussing all things datavis and my book, Drawing Product Ideas with @jpang0811 and the @ixda_sydney team! Also mad props to @yang140 and my other colleagues who wrote the guidelines with me.
Jessica K Pang@jpang081119 Apr 2023
Another new release with @KentTheHuth this time, the mastermind behind Google Material Design’s data visualization guidelines. Thanks again for a fun episode! Now available on the IxDA Sydney podcast 🎧 lnkd.in/g4kWUJhk

S2 E07 - Data Viz & accessibility. Lessons in building a data visualisation practice at Google |...

Another new release with Kent Eisenhuth this time, the mastermind behind Google Material Design’s data visualization guidelines. Thanks again for a fun episode! Now available on the IxDA Sydney...

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