Resources and links

Resources used during the creation of the guide and Power BI template.

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Design

• Automattic Design Inclusive Design Checklist by Ashleigh Axios

• Tableau's Data Visualization Tips For More Effective And Engaging Design

• 10 Data Visualizations Best Practices for the Web by Midori Nediger

Accessibility

• DataViz Accessibility Advocacy and Advisory Group

• Chartability

• Why Accessibility Is at the Heart of Data Visualization

  by Doug Schepers

• Accessible data viz is better data viz by Amy Cesal

• Webinar on Creating Accessible Power BI Reports with Meagan Longoria

• VISA's Chart Components Library

• Keyboard accessibility overview on WebAIM

• Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization by Amy Cesal

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview

Color

• How to Choose Colors for Data Visualizations by Mike Yi

• Accessible Colors for Data Visualization by Zach Grosser

• Adobe's Color for data visualization

• WebAIM's Color Contrast Checker

• Viz Palette by Elijah Meeks and Susie Lu

• Tableau's Best Practices for Designing Accessible Views

• Data Visualization: Best Practices by the University Libraries at the University at Buffalo

Screen readers

• NVDA

• JAWS

• VoiceOver (for Mac)

• Microsoft Narrator

• ChromeVox (plugin for Google Chrome)

Power BI Resources

• Meagan Longoria's Power BI Accessibility Checklist

• Power BI's Design Power BI reports for accessibility

  • Note that some of this information is only relevant for sharing dashboards in Power BI online. Some of the features are not available for public dashboards that have been published to web.

• David Eldersveld's Power BI Theme Templates

• Power BI Report Theme Generator V3

• Organize Power BI DAX Measures in Folders by Reza Rad

• Using Power BI Datasets

  • Connect to datasets in the Power BI service from Power BI Desktop

  • New Power BI Reports from a Golden Dataset

    by By Matt Allington

• Video on How to Use the New Smart Narrative Visual (Text Box) in Power BI by BI Elite