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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 19, 2016 1:18PM

We have talked to Tableau, and they have finally gotten on track in the
past 6-12 months. They have quarterly releases and we won't see any
improvement until the December 2016 release. I don't have the document
handy, but it will mainly address the Desktop and their output. I forget if
the output means the HTML interactive maps or if the PDF reports are
addressed as well.

My office has the ability to stop the use of products, so we have the
people give a business justification. If they say, or indirectly say, we
want to use Tableau because it is the new flashy tool, our answer is no at
this time.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Teresa Haven < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> 360-704-4316
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