[Athen] Tableau visualizations

Lucy Greco lgreco at berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 27 11:36:04 PDT 2018


hello: i would also love to see what you find thanks

Lucia Greco
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University of California, Berkeley
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Kathleen Cahill <kcahill at mit.edu> wrote:


> Hi Sharon,

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> We are evaluating accessibility of some Tableau visualizations currently

> with one of our departments. We’d be happy to share some information.

> We’re meeting with a developer in our IT department who works on Tableau

> and can follow up with information after that.

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> Kathy

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> Kathy Cahill

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> *From: *athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu> on

> behalf of Sharon M Trerise <smtreris at syr.edu>

> *Reply-To: *Access Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Date: *Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 9:15 AM

> *To: *Access Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject: *[Athen] Tableau visualizations

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> The last discussion I can find in the ATHEN archives is from 2015. My

> understanding is that the latest version of Tableau implemented some

> significant accessibility improvements.

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> Does anyone have recommendations for creating accessible visualizations

> with Tableau? I’ve found significant issues with screen reader access when

> trying to read data visualizations. Even though the data points appear in

> text on mouseover, they don’t seem to be available to the screen reader.

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> Does anyone have experience with Narratives for Tableau (

> https://narrativescience.com/Partners/Business-Intelligence/Tableau)

> which claims to create automated explanations of the visualizations?

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> Thanks.

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> Sharon

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> *Sharon Trerise* | IT Accessibility Support Services

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