figure accessibility

[noellepablo]

from MK--

"In prepping a bunch of slide decks for presentations at conferences with stringent accessibility criteria, I ran into a case where we had to rebuild a graph originally generated in r by hand-entering the stats into excel and reproducing the graph. This was the best path toward getting the figure to meet accessibility criteria, rather than writing a long paragraph of alt text that didn’t conform to certain standard sequencing of information. This experience made me think R&P might want to consider extra commands in their scripts for some types of figures so we can get data like that in a little table that easily reads into excel. In this case it was clustered bar graphs showing percentages, if that helps the idea become more concrete. I can see how other graphs would be hard to reproduce in tabular form that excel would know what to do with.

I don’t have a particular solution or goal – just handing it off for consideration."