New updates to make Power BI more accessible
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Report authors are empowered to make data accessible to a diverse group of users by making it more keyboard navigable, compliant with high-contrast modes, and compliant with screen reader technology. Accessibility features not only help users who use assistive technology, but are also a good practice of universal design.
Many of the new features fill accessibility gaps between Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service:
- Slicers are keyboard accessible.
- Switching between report, data, and relationship views into the actual report or data or relationship view and to the top right user settings control.
- Report authors can set a custom tab order for their report.
Other new accessibility features include screen reader, keyboard navigation, and high contrast for:
- Field wells
- Filters in filter pane
- Selection pane
- Quick Measures dialog
- Q&A
- Row-level security
- Text boxes
- Selection pane
- Desktop dialogs
- Selecting, multi-selecting, right-clicking, and cross-highlighting visuals
- Field list
- Grouping dialog
- Conditional formatting and data bars dialog
- Start dialog
- File Restore dialog
- Warning bar
- User menu
- Sign In dialog
- Publish to Power BI
- Frowns dialog
- What if dialog
- Relationship dialog