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From: Angela French
Date: Jul 25, 2013 9:27AM


Data visualization is starting to be so prevalent. I'd like to see examples of what companies who present data this way are doing to make the data available by other means. Socrates allows exporting to Excel, but I can't imagine that that is a very satisfying experience.

Angela French


>When viewing this page with VoiceOver on the Mac it sounds something like
>this: "Image, image, image, image, image..."
>
>You get the point.
>
>The company advertises that this is a tool for the visualization of data. I think
>that sums it up about accessibility.
>
>~j
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>John E. Brandt
>jebswebs: accessible and universal design, development and consultation
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:12 PM
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>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Tableau Analytics Software
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>Here is a Tableau Software visualization embedded onto a page all by itself
>http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/WorldwideCellphoneSubscriptions/Wor
>l
>dwideCellphoneUsage?:embed=y&amp;:display_count=no&amp;:embed=y&amp
>;:toolbar
>=n&amp;showTabsĂșlse&amp;:loadOrderID™99&amp;:apiID=handler0
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:webaim-forum-
>> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:08 PM
>>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Tableau Analytics Software
>>
>>And if the data visualizations created by the software are in anyway
>accessible:
>>http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/3/new-tableau-8-javascri
>>pt-
>>api
>>
>>Angela French (works with Greg )
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