Accessibility Improvements Added by Release

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Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 24.3

Users can now navigate Marks on all online visualization types on Tableau Cloud using a keyboard and other assistive technologies.

To activate the experience, navigate to a visualization and press Enter.

Select Enter again to navigate the Marks.
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.

To navigate out of the text table, press Esc.

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 24.2

Users can now navigate marks using anything other than a mouse to navigate visualizations, including bar and line charts, combo charts, heat maps, and more. Visualizations not included are scatterplots and maps. A customer using a screen reader will hear the information for each tooltip.

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

A linear visualization of a line graph.

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

A nonlinear visualization of a scatterplot.

To activate the experience, simply navigate to a text table.

Select Enter to access the visualization.
Select Enter again to navigate the marks.
From there, use the Arrow keys to navigate between the columns, rows, and headers.

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 24.1

Users can now use a keyboard only and assistive technology to navigate the marks of a text table. A customer using a screen reader will hear the information for each tooltip.

To activate the experience, simply navigate to a text table in the beta.

Select Enter to access the visualization.
Select Enter again to navigate the marks.
From there, use the arrow keys to navigate between the columns, rows, and headers.

We updated the View Data experience to be launched using Shift + Enter.

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 23.3

Editable alt text

Users now have three ingress points for editing alternative text “alt text” on Cloud and Server. This includes a viz context menu on a dashboard in addition to the worksheet and Data Guide.

A viz context menu accessed on a dashboard with the Accessibility menu item selected.

This feature is now available on Tableau Desktop, including all three ingress points.

Alt text only impacts visualizations rendered online.

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 23.2

Card Accessibility Improvements

We moved content metadata to a popover widget to make it easier to discover. We also added full keyboard navigation (including selection and batch actions) to the grid view. These actions are now available in the mobile browser. We fixed the focus indicator to enable customers to confidently navigate through content.

Editable alt text

Users can now edit the auto-generated alternative text or “alt text” on Tableau Cloud and Server. This can be done through the Data Guide and the Worksheet menu.

Edit alt text dialog box accessed through the Data Guide.

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 23.1

Auto-generated alternative text

Visualizations now have automatically generated alternative text for customers using screen readers. The alternative text is generated from a formula including the title, visualization type, and information about the columns and rows for all interactive visualizations on the web.

We removed duplication of labels and added context.

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 22.4

Card thumbnail links

We replaced complex URLs on thumbnail cards with the name of the content. For example, instead of a screen reader reading "https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/accessibility_dashboards.htm," it will read "Build Accessible Dashboards."

Accessibility improvements added in Tableau 21.3

We updated the default navigation for visualizations to generally move from left to right, top to bottom. We also added a manual process for updating the tab order. See this help document for instructions.

High-contract color palettes

We added high-contrast color palettes for visualizations.

Edit colors dialog with the Color Blind palette selected.

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