Jenny Gates

Data Visualisation is often considered a way to translate and communicate complex data stories and concepts into a more digestible format. Sometimes these visualisations are not as digitally accessible as they could be meaning that much of the brilliant work can be lost on a portion of our audience. In this session I’ll share my experience from my own accessibility needs, and we’ll talk about some common accessibility issues people can face such as colour contrast, assistive technology users and overpopulated dashboards. We’ll also look at how we can apply the principles that already exist around website accessibility and tools already available to us. Finally there’ll be an opportunity to walk through a purpose built dashboard in Tableau and talk about some of the practical implications. This session is targeted at those designing and developing data visualisations with an emphasis on the end product. Although the practical examples will be worked through in Tableau the key points and principals we’ll talk about can be applied to any data visualisation tool.