We are a team of Master's students studying Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). We partnered with Bloomberg L.P. to understand what challenges computer users with disabilities face when using desktop applications, such as the Bloomberg Terminal. Through secondary research, interviewing computer users with disabilities, and empathy-building exercises, we identified 7 key insights about opportunities to improve the computer experience for people with disabilities.

We narrowed our scope to address the insight "It's impossible for me to get the 'gist' of a page," specifically in the form of communicating the "gist" of line graphs to people with visual impairments. We built and tested prototypes of increasing fidelity on people with visual impairments, incorporating feedback in 3 phases of iterative design. Through this research and design process, we created Sonify, an interactive sonification application that enables people with visual impairments to quickly make sense of line graphs.