{"id":"study-unemployment-chart-screen-reader","audience":"college","category":"explaining","technique":"audience","track":"study","title":"Describe a chart for a classmate who uses a screen reader","free":false,"task":"Your Macro study partner, Devon, is blind and uses a screen reader, and the problem set includes a chart. Get a description under 60 words, plain text, that starts with the overall trend, then gives the highest and lowest values with their years, using only the chart's data. No phrases like 'as you can see', no symbols like arrows, and use the corrected 2021 figure.","materialLabel":"The chart data and a note from the TA (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"ECON 1020 - Problem Set 6 - Figure 2\n\"Unemployment rate, Millbrook County, 2018-2024\" (line chart, from the county labor office)\n\nData points shown on the chart:\n2018: 4.1%\n2019: 3.8%\n2020: 9.6%\n2021: 7.2%\n2022: 5.0%\n2023: 4.4%\n2024: 4.0%\n\nTA NOTE (posted on Canvas): \"Correction: the 2021 point on Figure 2 should be 6.2%, not 7.2%. The labor office revised it.\"\n\nProblem set question 3: \"Describe the trend in Millbrook's unemployment rate from 2018 to 2024, including its peak.\"\n\nDevon's message: \"Can you describe Figure 2 for me? My screen reader just says 'image.' Short is better, I'm listening to it while I take notes. Please don't say 'as you can see' lol.\"\n\nPS due Thursday. Devon and I meet in the library Wed at 4.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying who it's for","why":"The AI writes a visual description full of 'as shown' and arrow symbols that a screen reader reads badly.","fix":"Say: \"For a classmate using a screen reader. No visual phrases or symbols.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Listing every number","why":"The AI reads out all 7 values in order, and the trend gets lost.","fix":"Add: \"Start with the overall trend, then only the high and low.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the TA's fix","why":"The chart's typo and the TA's correction are both in your material.","fix":"Add: \"Use the corrected 2021 figure, 6.2%.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"trend in one sentence under 20 words, then one sentence for high and low.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it will be read","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in a screen reader.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says who it's for","patterns":["screen reader","blind","devon","listen"]},{"label":"Puts the trend first","patterns":["trend first","start with.{0,15}trend","overall"]},{"label":"Asks for high and low","patterns":["highest","lowest","peak","high and low"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["correct","6\\.2"]},{"label":"Rules out visual phrases","patterns":["as you can see","no (arrows|symbols)","visual"]}],"hint":"A chart description for a listener needs the big picture first and no visual language. Say who it's for, what goes first, which values to include, and the corrected figure.","rubricLabels":["Starts with the overall trend (a sharp rise to a peak in 2020, then a steady fall back to around pre-2020 levels by 2024) before listing specific values","Gives the highest value (9.6% in 2020) and the lowest (3.8% in 2019), and if 2021 is mentioned, uses 6.2% (not 7.2%)","Contains no visual phrases like 'as you can see' or 'looking at the chart', no arrows or symbols, and no answer to the problem set beyond describing the chart"]}