Software engineers have figured out how to turn charts into music for the blind

[tcrews]

The title is very clickbaity. Just search for "chart sonification" and see there is a lot of research in this area. Maybe they meant to emphasize that this is a browser extension?

[10dpd]

Agreed - this idea has been around since 1914.

[owlninja]

This HN thread is the third result already o_O

[neilcrj]

This is the problem Richard MacDuff was wrestling with at the beginning of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I love it when sci-fi from my childhood becomes reality.

[fhood]

Thank you for reminding me that that book exists. It's been a few years since I last re-read it.

[prefect42]

Oddly enough, that was the first thing that popped into my head, when seeing the title.

[Mizza]

At Science Hack Day, me and some friends built a version of Super Mario for the Blind that you can play in a similar way:

Play: http://gleitzman.com:1339/

Source: https://github.com/miserlou/jsnes

After a few tries, you can actually get through the first few levels!

[gtirloni]

It's an interesting idea! How does one know what each sound represents?

[obstbraende]

it doesn't seem to register key presses on chrome 56 (mac os)

[Redditshill]

I know it's not exactly the same thing, but reminds me of this video from a while back:

This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNgsU9o4ik

[andrewclunn]

I'm holding out for the pie charts that are tasty, relationship charts that make it through the tough times, and line charts that get me high as fuck!

[ge96]

Didn't this lady do this who is an astrophysicist (also blind)

something about gamma ray burst (heard it on NPR podcast)