Frank Elavsky

Frank is a PhD student and researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a consultant whose past collaborations include Apple's Human-Centered Machine Learning research group, Adobe, Microsoft, Visa, Highcharts, and others. Frank's work lies at the intersection of interactive data visualization and accessibility, making analytical work more accessible for and alongside people with disabilities. His projects include Chartability, a framework for helping practitioners evaluate inaccessible visualizations and Data Navigator, a tool that helps creators make interactive visualizations more accessible for users of assistive technologies. He also advises the Accessible, Rich, Internet Applications (ARIA) standards working group as an invited expert in data visualization.