NCAM

A research and development facility at WGBH (Boston public media) that develops accessible media technologies and guidelines. NCAM created widely-adopted guidelines for describing STEM images (charts, graphs, diagrams) for people with visual impairments, developed through expert consensus involving over 30 describers and teachers of students with vision loss. These guidelines specify what information to include (titles, axis labels, units, data trends) and how to structure descriptions with both prose text and accessible data tables. NCAM also developed POET, an open-source tool for creating image descriptions in digital publications.