Hello -
This year's Axe-Con virtual conference from Deque featured a session on "Designing Accessible Dashboards." The session recording is available for free now on YouTube.
Although the mission here is about accessibility in the vein of WCAG and compatibility with digital accessibility tools, it's also a reasonable 'vocabulary swap' to say this is also about creating legible dashboards that are effective at their storytelling because of how the content is thoughtfully managed. I encourage everyone to deepen their familiarity with these best practices.
The session is 49 minutes, though this includes ~10 for Q&A. And, should it work for your learning style, I recommend adjusting the playback speed to tighten it up a bit further.
I'm glad you shared this session! I had seen it too and it's something I have been trying to consider and learn more about for working into my dashboard and chart designs.
Here are a couple of related resources that I have saved, these come from the Data Visualization Society. The first two are articles from their online publication Nightingale and the second two are 30-minute videos from their recorded "Outlier" conference.
A New Vision for Data Viz Accessibility
Designing for Neurodivergent Audiences
Are your data visualizations excluding people?
Lessons Learned From Our Accessibility-First Approach to Data Visualization
There is much to be learned, and it's so true that as we incorporate some of these best practices, they will help all of the users of our dashboards and reports.
Happy analyzing,Christine
Thanks, Christine.
Is your TLCC 2023 presentation available online too? (Could the PDF make it into this thread?)
I may use axe-con sessions--this one I've mentioned and a similar one about Creating Content for Neurodiverse audiences, also (reductively) about how simplicity is the way to go to support comprehension--to put together something quick for my colleagues and I thought you also had a lot of good ways of sharing how to set up dashboards that don't overwhelm people.
Well, and just like so much of accessibility work where what works for one audience ends up being beneficial for many audiences, I have found that stripping away and just showing the basic information is often useful for many other reasons. Especially in terms of getting buy in from people who are predisposed to dislike Tessitura and/or dashboards; if you start with something clear, not overly complex and easy to understand it gets people using them.
Hi Jamie, I'm so glad you found my presentation with Odele Peter helpful!
I seem to be having trouble attaching the pdf to this reply, but I can send that to you in a separate message. I'd also be happy to share my talking point notes with you if the pdf of the presentation doesn't have all of the details you were looking for. It's an ongoing learning process - working with different people and reading the latest best practices.
Data can be intimidating, but with the storytelling concepts it can be both beautiful and informative - it becomes almost an art form itself!
Happy analyzing!Christine
Hi Christine - thanks for the generous offer of sharing the PDF! Sorry that you were having issues with attaching it in the thread. In case helpful, you should be able to upload it to the Files section on this page here?
Thanks, Gill, I was able to upload it to the files. For anyone looking to reference our presentation, you can now find it here: https://community.tessitura.com/topical_groups/analytics-coffee/m/files/57849
Brilliant, many thanks.