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The Tactile Vega-Lite system can take data from something like an Excel spreadsheet and turn it into both a standard visual chart and a touch-based one. Design standards are hardwired as default rules within the program, helping educators and designers automatically create accessible tactile charts (Credits: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL, with elements from Pixabay).

A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

Left to right: Dan Aguayo, Max Krohn, and Jeremy Stribling in 2005 (Credits: Frank Dabek).

How a fake-paper generator tricked scientific journals, 20 years later

The “Xstrings” method can produce a range of colorful and unique objects, like a white tentacle that curls around items and a purple wall sculpture that can open and close (Credit: Mike Grimmett/MIT CSAIL).

3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you

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A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

How a fake-paper generator tricked scientific journals, 20 years later

3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you