R Accessibility Links

Posit Workbench | RStudio Desktop

• RStudio Accessibility Features for analysts and developers
  
• Posit product accessibility statement
  

Quarto, R Markdown, Shiny

• R Markdown Cookbook chapter on Improving accessibility of HTML pages
• {accessrmd} package written to help improve the accessibility of R Markdown documents
• Quarto tutorial on Figures including captions, labels, and alternative text.
• Posit Community thread on Making Shiny Apps Accessible for All Humans
• Jumping Rivers blog post on Alt Text in R: Plots, Reports, and Shiny [March 23, 2023]
• Jumping Rivers blog post on Accessibility in R applications: {shiny} [May 19, 2022]
• Appsilon blog post on Accessibility Web Development – How to Make R Shiny Apps Accessible, how to use shinya11y package [July 19, 2022]
• Blog post on Resources for Data Viz Accessibility in R by Silvia Canelón, Data Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania

Resources for blind users

• Webpage on Statistical Software and Blind Users by Jonathan Godfrey, School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at Massey University
• Blind R User Group by the National Federation of the Blind
• Posit video on Accessible Data Science Beyond Visual Models