SAS Graphics Accelerator

Enables users with visual impairments or blindness to create, explore, and share data visualizations.
What is SAS Graphics Accelerator?
SAS Graphics Accelerator is a revolutionary Chrome extension designed to make data visualization more accessible to visually impaired or blind users. This tool offers alternative presentations of data, including enhanced visual rendering, textual descriptions, tabular data, and interactive sonification to impart key information about graphical data. The extension requires permissions such as 'Read your browsing history' and 'Manage your downloads'. User acceptance of the terms of the SAS Institute Inc. License Agreement for its usage is mandatory.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.50 (2)
Version: 5.6.21.17120 (Last updated: 2024-06-27)
Creation date: 2020-06-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • downloads
  • webNavigation
Size: 41.58M

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Extension summary

SAS Graphics Accelerator enables users with visual impairments or blindness to create, explore, and share data visualizations. It supports alternative presentations of data visualizations that include enhanced visual rendering, text descriptions, tabular data, and interactive sonification. Sonification uses non-speech audio to convey important information about the graph. See the SAS Graphics Accelerator product page at http://support.sas.com/software/products/graphics-accelerator/ for sample graphs, documentation, and more.

Feedback Your feedback will help shape the next release of SAS Graphics Accelerator. Please send questions or comments to [email protected].

Permissions SAS Graphics Accelerator requires the following browser permissions:

  • The "Read your browsing history" permission is required for users to access accessible alternative presentations of graphs and tables within inline frames, also known as "iframes", within web pages and web apps.
  • The "Manage your downloads" permission is required for users to quickly access accessible graphs and other files that are saved to the Downloads folder.

License Agreement Your use of this product indicates your acceptance of the terms of the SAS Institute Inc. License Agreement for SAS Graphics Accelerator, available here: http://support.sas.com/legaldocs/Graphics_Accelerator_Chrome.pdf. If you do not agree with these terms, you are not authorized to use the product.

Extension safety

Risk impact

SAS Graphics Accelerator requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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