Updated help content and release information
We recently updated the accessibility related help content to a single place inside our help content. Check out Tableau Accessibility for the latest help content. We also added a new page Accessibility Improvements Added by Release which lists accessibility work by release.
Accessibility Conformance Reports (VPATs)
- Current Version
- Previous Versions
- Please search the Tableau Community Forums for the accessibility conformance reports for older versions of Tableau.
Documentation
We recently updated the accessibility related help content to a single place inside our help content. Check out Tableau Accessibility for the latest help content.
Questions and Tips
We recently updated the accessibility related help content to a single place inside our help content. Check out Tableau Accessibility for the latest help content.
- Keyboard and Screen Reader Support in Tableau Dashboards
- What items can I use on a dashboard that I want to be accessible?
- How can I set the focus order of the views and objects in a dashboard? (Updated for Tableau 2021.3)
- Colorblind Custom Color Palettes
- Customizing Filters for Better Accessibility
- Customizing Filters for Better Accessibility, Part II: Disabling the "All" Value
- Meeting New WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria in Tableau Dashboards: Reflow
- Meeting New WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria in Tableau Dashboards: Non-Text Contrast
- Creating More Accessible BANs
Examples of Dashboards Designed for Accessibility
- SAT Performance of Admitted Students (Target: WCAG 2.1 Level AA)
- SAT Performance of Admitted Students (Target: WCAG 2.0 Level AA)
- ICT Daily Planing Tool (Target: WCAG 2.0 Level AA)
- NYSERDA Clean Energy Dashboard (Target: WCAG 2.0 Level AA; example of using Tableau JavaScript API to display data in HTML table external to dashboard for accessibility purposes)
Blog Posts
- Three ways to make your COVID-19 dashboards more accessible to people with disabilities
- How to create and publish accessible dashboards in Tableau
- Create accessible vizzes with Tableau 10.2
Presentations
- Applying Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in Data Visualizations
- Toronto Tableau User Group Presentation from 03/24/2021 (starts at 37:48, although the previous presentation on general accessibility best practices is excellent and worth watching)
- Data Science Central Webinar: Building accessible dashboards in Tableau
- Think Data Thursday: Designing Tableau Dashboards for Accessibility
Videos
- Creating accessible dashboards in Tableau
- Using accessible dashboards with screen readers and keyboard-only operations
From the Community
- A Tableau Accessibility Journey (from DataBlick)
Hi Kyle,
Thank you very much for sharing information about designing accessible dashboards! My state agency has been working with our web team on redesigning our dashboards to ensure that they meet the Section 508 requirements. There have been some challenges, and I hope you will be able to give me some guidance.
One challenge I have is the table below. The table uses a black and red color to show increase and decrease from a prior year change. My web team suggested that we include a shape so that color is not the only distinguishable mark on the table as an indicator of the increase/decrease information. The tooltip will also provide the percent change information. From your experience, is the red and black colors distinguishable enough in the table? There aren't many marks but will this table provide a disservice for individuals with color contrast difficulties?
