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Sponsored by Mathworks, the creator of Matlab and Simulink software

Highlights
Digital accessibility and its importance to engineers and scientists with disabilities
Digital accessibility issues in STEM education and practice
Making data and software tools accessible to all engineers and scientists
Importance of the accessibility of digital documents, including scientific publications and course textbooks
Improving accessibility of data through data sonification, graphical braille displays, and screen readers.

Read the agenda and about the amazing panelists here
https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/digital-accessibility-engineering-science-3874451.html#skip_link_anchor
Register here
https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/digital-accessibility-engineering-science-3874451.html

Some of these works sound beautiful--the stick map of ocean waves, the copper and glass map of British marine trade in the mid-20th century--and some sound a little, well, like those string maps created by conspiracy theorists in TV shows, but it's all pretty fascinating, giving material form to information.
http://dataphys.org/list/