Navigate Visualizations with Assistive Technology

Applies to: Tableau Cloud

You can navigate Marks on simple, linear visualizations using a keyboard and other assistive technologies.

Linear visualizations follow a natural reading order, such as a line graph.

Example of line graph.

Nonlinear visualizations don't follow a natural reading order, such as a scatterplot.

Example of a scatterplot.

Starting in Tableau 24.2, you can navigate simple linear visualizations with assistive technology.

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.

Viz navigation isn’t currently supported for Gantt views, for 2D vizzes that contain more than one mark in a single cell, or for server-rendered visualizations. To learn more about server and client-side rendering, see Configure Client-Side Rendering.

  1. To activate the experience, navigate to a text table within a view and press Enter.

  2. Select Enter again to navigate the Marks.

  3. Use the Arrow keys to navigate between headers, columns, and rows.

  4. 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.

  1. To open the View Data pane, move your focus to the viz and press Shift + Enter.

  2. Use the Arrow keys to navigate between headers, columns, and rows.

  3. To close the View Data pane, press ALT + F4 (Windows) or Cmd + W (Mac OS).

To learn more about keyboard navigation on Tableau, see Keyboard Accessibility for Tableau Views.

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