Even when actual technologies present the potential to augment inclusion and the United Nations has been stablished the digital access to information as a human right, people with disabilities continuously faced barriers in their profession. In many cases, in sciences, the lack of accessible and user centred tools left behind researches with disabilities and not facilitate them to conduct front-line research by using their respective strengths. In this contribution, we discuss some hurdles and solutions relevant for using new technology for data analysis, analysing the barriers found by final users. A focus group session was conducted with nine people with and without visual impairment, using the tool sonoUno with one linear function and an astronomical data set downloaded from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. As a result of the focus group study, incorporating data analysis using sonification, we conclude that functionally diverse people require tools to be autonomous, thereby enabling precision, certainty, effectiveness and efficiency in their work, resulting in enhanced equity. This can be achieved by pursuing a user-centred design approach as integral to software development, and by adapting resources according to the research objectives. Development of tools that empower people with wide-ranging abilities to not only access data using multi-sensorial techniques, but also address the current lack of inclusion, is sorely needed.

翻译：尽管当前技术具有增强包容性的潜力，且联合国已将数字信息获取权确立为一项人权，但残障人士在其职业领域仍持续面临障碍。在科学领域，缺乏无障碍且以用户为中心的工具，往往使残障研究者被边缘化，无法发挥其各自优势开展前沿研究。本文探讨了利用新技术进行数据分析时面临的一些障碍与解决方案，分析了终端用户所遭遇的瓶颈。我们组织了一场由九位视障与非视障人士参与的焦点小组会议，使用SonoUno工具处理一个线性函数以及从斯隆数字巡天项目下载的天文数据集。通过本次基于声波化数据分析的焦点小组研究，我们得出结论：功能多样性群体需要能实现自主操作的工具，从而在工作中获得精准性、确定性、有效性与高效性，最终促进公平。实现这一目标需要将用户中心设计方法作为软件开发的核心，并根据研究目标调整资源配置。当前亟需开发能让具有广泛能力的人群不仅通过多感官技术获取数据、更能解决现有包容性缺失问题的工具。