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From: Teresa Haven
Date: May 19, 2016 12:54PM

Hi, Angela. I was recently asked to check out Tableau for similar reasons; aside from checking the same general areas that you did, I also talked with their representative, who was very forthright about their current lack of accessibility. He says improvement to the output of the product is on their roadmap for this year, with longer-term plans for improvement of the authoring side, but he knows that right now it doesn't meet standards.

Hope this helps,

Teresa Haven, Ph.D.
Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University



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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessibility of Tableau data dashboards?

Hello,
Has anyone on this list ever evaluated the accessibility of the dashboards created using Tableau? Our state agency is beginning to use Tableau internally and want to start linking to, or embedding, these Tableau dashboards through our website. I have concerns about their accessibility.

For example, I did a very rudimentary review of this page<http://public.tableau.com/profile/technical.product.marketing#!/vizhome/Tale-of-100-Entrepreneurs_14/Taleof100Entrepreneurs>. All I want to see was whether those things on the page that look like headings, actually are headings. They are not.
They are just styled to look like headings. I don't know if this is a deficiency in the software or what.

I would be interested in hearing of the experience of users on this list.

Thank you,


Angela French
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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