This week is dashboard week and we have been tasked with producing different types of dashboards. Today's challenge was building a high accessibility dashboard that will accommodate and facilitate use for those with a range of disabilities.

In order to produce a dashboard to fit these requirements, there's a range of things to consider. Here are my 3 most important things to consider.

Ease of use - When it comes to accessibility, ease of use is arguably the most important thing to consider. The dashboard needs to be easy to use and interact with. It needs to simple, uncluttered and easy to understand. Instructions and captions come in handy and provide the user information about charts, sections of the dashboard and usage. You want to make sure the user feels comfortable using the dashboard and has instructions or help when needed.

Readability - Many accessibility issues occur with readability, common disabilities such as dyslexia, colour blindness and dyscalculia means some people have trouble understanding what one can consider 'trivial'. Though a complex and subjective issue, these can be aided a lot of the time with the use of correct colour palettes (colour blind friendly), big bold text, and removing any uneeded text and clutter. You want it as easy as possible to digest and understand. Techniques such as dashboard order and layout can also be of aid when helping users understand certain parts of a dashboard and how they link

Narration - Narration is an important but also challenging tool to accommodate. Used for the visually impaired, narration tools help the user understand a chart easier. This is a tricky accommodation in tableau as narration tools cannot read charts and most items on a dashboard. A hack around this would be to integrate data into titles where narration tools do work or having tableau extensions that help narrate certain charts such as tables. These are fool proof and perfect in every scenario but do help. Another thing that can be done is making use of more text than charts to get your analysis across, or have captions accompanying charts. These captions can then be read by a narration tool and can act as second