Navigate Visualizations with Assistive Technology
Starting in Tableau version 24.3, you can navigate Marks on all online visualization types on Tableau Cloud using a keyboard and other assistive technologies.
Note: Viz navigation isn't currently supported for server-rendered visualizations. To learn more about server and client-side rendering, see Configure Client-Side Rendering.
Navigate marks in a visualization
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To activate the experience, navigate to a visualization and press Enter.
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Select Enter again to navigate the Marks.
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Use the Arrow keys to navigate between headers, columns, and rows.
If your visualization has a dual axis, or if it's a scatter plot or map, an additional navigation affordance appears. Use the Arrow keys to move the focus to a group of marks and select Enter to navigate the marks in the group.
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To navigate out of the text table, press Esc.
Note: Prior to entering mark-level navigation, you can use the Arrow keys to navigate different areas of the view, such as the header and axis.
Navigate marks in the View Data pane
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To open the View Data pane, move your focus to the viz and press Shift + Enter.
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Use the Arrow keys to navigate between headers, columns, and rows.
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To close the View Data pane, press ALT + F4 (Windows) or Cmd + W (Mac OS).
Navigate linear visualizations in previous versions of Tableau Cloud
If you're using Tableau version 24.2, you can navigate simple, linear online visualizations with assistive technology.
Linear visualizations follow a natural reading order, such as a line graph.
Nonlinear visualizations don't follow a natural reading order, such as a scatterplot.
This includes one-dimensional (1D) linear vizzes that contain axes in one direction, such as line charts, bar charts, and area charts; and two-dimensional (2D) linear vizzes that contain only headers in both horizontal and vertical directions, such as heat maps, text tables, and highlight tables.
To learn more about keyboard navigation on Tableau, see Keyboard Accessibility for Tableau Views.