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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.
prefect42
Oddly enough, that was the first thing that popped into my head, when seeing the title.
fhood
Thank you for reminding me that that book exists. It's been a few years since I last re-read it.
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
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)
ge96
Didn't this lady do this who is an astrophysicist (also blind)

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

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!