SAS Products
SAS® Graphics Accelerator
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.
SAS Graphics Accelerator is compatible with SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS OnDemand for Academics, and the SAS ODS Graphics procedures.
For a wide range of resources for SAS users with disabilities, see SAS Disability Support Center.
The most recent release is SAS Graphics Accelerator 5.6.21.17120.
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Key Features in SAS Graphics Accelerator 5.6.21.17120
- The following plot types can be explored interactively using sound (sonification): bar charts, box plots, bubble plots, heat maps, histograms, line charts, parameterized lines, pie charts, scatter plots, dendrograms, and time series plots. Grouped charts can be explored using sonification.
- The following plot types can be described but cannot be explored using sonification: contour plots, band plots, block plots, drop lines, ellipses, fringe plots, mosaic plots, model band plots, needle plots, loess plots, polygons, regression plots, PBSpline plots, scatter plot matrices, step plots, surface plots, text plots, vector plots*, waterfall charts, 3-D histograms, and multi-layered plots.
- In SAS Graphics Accelerator's Laboratory, users can create accessible graphs of their own data. Users have several options for providing data, including importing the data from the file system, extracting data from web pages, and creating data tables interactively within the Laboratory.
- Users can import geospatial maps as Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. The maps can be explored using sonification. In addition, maps created in Google My Maps can be explored using sonification. Users can also create maps of their tabular data. Users can use a game controller to navigate maps.
- Users can import the following file types: comma-separated-value (CSV), tab-separated-value (TSV or TAB), Microsoft Excel workbooks (XLSX), and Keyhole Markup Language (KML).
- Users can modify various table properties. For example, users can change the table's title or the data type that is associated with a column. Users can also subset the data by applying a filter to one or more columns. Users can then graph the filtered data.
- Users can visualize and share graphs including those that they create. A visual graph can be downloaded as a PNG file or as an HTML page.
- Users can download tabular data as a comma-separated value (CSV) file, an HTML file, and a SAS program that, when executed in SAS, generates a SAS data set. Users can download graphs and save graphs to the Laboratory.
- SAS Graphics Accelerator provides an easy way to explore table variables and access automatically generated graphs for further analysis.
- Users can customize visual and auditory settings for the alternative presentations.
- SAS Graphics Accelerator provides localized content within graphs. Note that SAS Graphics Accelerator user interface is English only.
Supported software:
- Windows 10
- macOS 10.13 or later
- Browser: Chrome 88 or later
- JAWS on Microsoft Windows for Chrome
- NVDA on Microsoft Windows for Chrome
- VoiceOver on Apple OSX for Chrome
SAS products that SAS Graphics Accelerator supports
:- SAS Visual Analytics 8.3 or later; SAS Report Viewer 8.2
- SAS Visual Analytics Viewer 7.4 (the modern viewer only)
- SAS Studio 3.6 or later
- SAS Enterprise Guide 7.13 or later
- SAS ODS Graphics procedures, fourth maintenance release for SAS 9.4 or later; SAS ODS Graphics procedures for the SAS Viya platform
Install the SAS Graphics Accelerator extension for your browser from the browser's app store.
