[BlindMath] What does the largest one-day drop in market value sound like?

[Ed Summers]

Hi Sabra,

That's great. I can address a few of the items you mentioned.

It is most certainly possible to create graphs from a spreadsheet right now using a free extension for Google Chrome called SAS Graphics Accelerator. I do it every day. The first thing I do is save the worksheet as a csv file. Then, I import the csv file into my Laboratory within SAS Graphics Accelerator. Then, I create a pie chart, bar chart, line chart, time series chart, histogram, scatter plot, etc. Then, I explore those graphs interactively using my keyboard and headphones. If I want I can generate a visual representation of the chart and share it with colleagues. That's how I created the Facebook stock chart... follow the instructions at the bottom of the page to explore the graph interactively:

http://support.sas.com/misc/accessibility/blog/FacebookDaily.html

Also, check out the SAS Graphics Accelerator Users Guide for a complete description of all the features:

http://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=gracclug&docsetTarget=titlepage.htm&docsetVersion=1.0&locale=en

Best,
Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sabra Ewing via BlindMath
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 8:53 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Sabra Ewing <sabra1023 at gmail.com>; Pranav Lal <pranav.lal at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] What does the largest one-day drop in market value sound like?

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Wow, that chart made a lot of sense to me and I normally can't read charts very well. What I got out of it was that at the beginning of the quarter, they were making a good amount of money. Near the middle of the quarter, the earnings went way down, and then they abruptly went up to around where they were at the beginning of the quarter. Then, they slowly went up and at the end of the quarter, the earnings were higher than they were at the beginning of the quarter. Am I right? I am looking to go into the field of data analysis. Do you know what would be the best way to access charts and that field? I need the charts to be like this the way that you make it. I do not need any of these tactile charts. It does not have to be a piano, but it needs to be the same where it can draw it in my mind. I want what you are saying where I can navigate the chart using the keyboard, I can listen to the chart, I can get the numbers from it, I can listen to certain portions of the chart, and I can maybe even connected with a spreadsheet. I would like to have things on a spreadsheet that I can turn into a chart that I can listen to and also show to people. I need to chart to go from left to right in the earphones the way that you have it, and I would even be interested in charts that use 3-D recording. Also, I would like a feature in Aira where an agent can send me a picture or a chart that I can listen to. I would also love to be able to switch between my computer and my phone when dealing with these charts, have it integrated with collaboration tools if I am working on a data set with the team, and so forth. Do you know what I could do to get into this field? I would also like to know why I can't read any tactile pictures, graphs, or maps even though I was born blind and had lots of training to try to teach me, but I can listen to complicated charts and pictures without training? I even listened to this one picture that was rotating. Also is it possible to sound code things the way that sighted people colorcode them? Like how they might put important points in a different color or put certain portions of the chart in a different color?Or if Aira cannot actually link up with a piece of software, it would be cool if the agents could receive training to be able to sing you a picture or a chart although that might be a bit harder if you have no way to make it go left to right.

Sabra Ewing

> On Aug 2, 2018, at 6:22 PM, Pranav Lal via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> Very cool. Do the beeps indicate the y axis? I am confused by the higher
> pitch which seems to be indicating a lower value? That is, the higher the
> pitch the lower the value or is it that the value kept climbing and then
> just stopped?
>
> Pranav
>
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