Per this HN post, terminal charting can be challenging with respect to accessibility. Capturing some ideas for paths of work:
Add guidelines to the README with respect to accessibility, so devs may be aware of the issues.
Introduce alternative rendering modes, controlled by environment variables:
NTCHARTS_BLANK so users with screen readers will have blank canvas rendering
NTCHARTS_ALT with an experience / output appropriate for a screen reader or other devices?
Would have to be chart dependent... e.g. meters/guages could emit their value, but what for a line chart?
Send some rendered representation of the data to an LLM which summarizes it and renders descriptive text? This is an example where assistive features could also help other users.
How would this interact with BubbleTea, focus, event loops, etc.
Per this HN post, terminal charting can be challenging with respect to accessibility. Capturing some ideas for paths of work:
Add guidelines to the README with respect to accessibility, so devs may be aware of the issues.
Introduce alternative rendering modes, controlled by environment variables:
NTCHARTS_BLANKso users with screen readers will have blank canvas renderingNTCHARTS_ALTwith an experience / output appropriate for a screen reader or other devices?Would have to be chart dependent... e.g. meters/guages could emit their value, but what for a line chart?
Send some rendered representation of the data to an LLM which summarizes it and renders descriptive text? This is an example where assistive features could also help other users.
How would this interact with BubbleTea, focus, event loops, etc.