Sonifier

Sonifier is a simple JavaScript library that converts a two-dimensional data into a sonified response (also known as "audio graphs"). Sonification assists people who use screen readers (for e.g., blind and people with low-vision) to understand the "ups-and-downs" of the data such as trends in a temporal data set.

This library is part of an ongoing research project being conducted at the University of Washington, led by Ather Sharif.

Installation

npm i sonifier --save

Examples

Examples are provided under the example folder.

Dev Tools

Lint

ESLint is used for linting.

Command: make lint / npm run lint

Tests

Jest and Enzyme are used as testing frameworks and for coverage. Adding/modifying tests for the proposed changes and ensuring that the coverage is at 100% is crucial. To run tests in watch mode:

npm run test

To generate coverage report:

npm run test:coverage

Docs

JSDoc is used for documentation. It's important to follow the guidelines for JSDoc to add informative and descriptive comments and documentation to the code. Documentation can be found here.

Command: make docs / npm run docs

Code formatter

Prettier is used for code formatting.

Command: make prettier / npm run prettier

Build

Babel is used for build purposes. Runs lint, tests, code formatter and docs as well.

Command: make build / npm run prepublish

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome and appreciated. Contributing guidelines can be found here.

License

Licensed under MIT. Can be found here.

Citations

Ather Sharif, Olivia H. Wang, Alida T. Muongchan, Katharina Reinecke, and Jacob O. Wobbrock. 2022. VoxLens: Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible with an Interactive JavaScript Plug-In. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 478, 1–19.

PDF | Presentation

Ather Sharif, Olivia H. Wang, and Alida T. Muongchan. 2022. "What Makes Sonification User-Friendly?" Exploring Usability and User-Friendliness of Sonified Responses. In The 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. To appear.

PDF | Presentation