ABSTRACT
Access to public data is important for people to stay informed. Access to visualizations of national statistics can be essential in order to take part in political discussions and so to shape a democratic society. In this chapter we investigate accessibility for people with disabilities to data visualizations from a selection of European National Statistics Institutes (NSIs). We outline related practices and approaches to accessibility improvements and propose a way to evaluate and compare accessibility aspects of data visualizations. The findings indicate that in contrast to the recently harmonized European legal requirements, the degree to which the data visualizations meet the requirements, and the approaches to meet them, are very different among the NSIs across Europe.
