About

Why AltGosling?​

There is a large gap in accessibility, specifically for people with blindness and low vision (BLV), on the web. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG require text descriptions for images. AltGosling creates text descriptions for genomic visualizations created with Gosling. In this way, interactive visualizations can be deployed on the web and automatically include text descriptions.

Team​

AltGosling is developed in the HiDIVE Lab at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

• Thomas Smits (tsmits@hms.harvard.edu)
• Sehi L'Yi (sehi_lyi@hms.harvard.edu)
• Andrew Mar (apmar@berkeley.edu)
• Nils Gehlenborg (nils@hms.harvard.edu)