This post is a continuation of A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part III - Color Contrast, earlier posts in the series outline the scope of the work we are covering as part of this effort. Part I of this series also includes a number of accessibility issues that were identified in our case study visualization, one of which was the inability to navigate and interact with our case study visualization without a mouse.

This post is a continuation of A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part II, which discusses how to set focus order correctly in your Tableau visualization. The first part of this series includes a number of accessibility issues that were identified in our case study visualization, and this post will focus on trying to address the issues of color contrast and text size identified in part one.

This post is a continuation of A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part I, which outlines the scope of the work to be covered in this series. The first part of this series includes a number of accessibility issues that were identified in our case study visualization, and this post will focus on trying to address this issue of Focus Order.

Recently, I came to the realization that 0 of my 58 published data visualizations on my Tableau Public profile provide equal access of their data and storylines for all users, mostly excluding those with disabilities. I have read and studied a lot about developing visuals with care for color blindness, but not so much for blindness itself, or low vision, or users who cannot use a mouse, or many other disabled users. A recent Twitter thread by our colleague Frank Elavsky hits on this topic. It is through these realizations that I decided to join and contribute to the dataviza11y group. A quick plug that we have a great group of people, looking to do some exciting things in this space, so do check out and follow that group and it’s member’s activities if you are interested. A wonderful and recent example is the talk Frank, Sarah Fossheim and Larene Le Gassick presented at Outlier.