Video, transcript, files, and links at: https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/powerBI.html
Synopsis
What can we do to make our Power BI reports more accessible? In this 20 minute presentation I explain the four principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and how they relate to the creation of Power BI reports.
DAX and Power BI Training - 004 Power QueryWill Harvey
I this session we are introducing Power Query for Excel, the data sources you can connect to, and the transformations you can apply. We also introduce more advanced topics of writing your own M functions.
Power BI Full Course | Power BI Tutorial for Beginners | EdurekaEdureka!
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3u7MQz1EyPY
** Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training **
This Edureka PPT on "Power BI Full Course" will help you understand and learn Power BI in detail. This Power BI Tutorial is ideal for both beginners as well as professionals who want to master up their Power BI concepts.
With the rise of the cloud, data intensive systems and the Internet of Things the use of distributed systems have become widespread.
The first big player was Hadoop, which provided an integral solution to Big Data storage and computation problems. Its popularity empowered many organizations to adopt this technology. However new challenges appeared, like the need to be able to execute iterative, interactive or in-memory algorithms without the disk-intensive burden of MapReduce. For that very reason Hadoop evolved, decoupling its resources manager from the main computation engine: YARN was born. As a result of its vast adoption, YARN has become the de-facto distributed operating system for Big Data.
Since early releases, Apache Spark provided a way to be executed on YARN-powered clusters. In this talk we will take a look into that technology, and we will learn what it means having Spark running on this kind of infrastructure.
DAX and Power BI Training - 004 Power QueryWill Harvey
I this session we are introducing Power Query for Excel, the data sources you can connect to, and the transformations you can apply. We also introduce more advanced topics of writing your own M functions.
Power BI Full Course | Power BI Tutorial for Beginners | EdurekaEdureka!
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3u7MQz1EyPY
** Power BI Training - https://www.edureka.co/power-bi-training **
This Edureka PPT on "Power BI Full Course" will help you understand and learn Power BI in detail. This Power BI Tutorial is ideal for both beginners as well as professionals who want to master up their Power BI concepts.
With the rise of the cloud, data intensive systems and the Internet of Things the use of distributed systems have become widespread.
The first big player was Hadoop, which provided an integral solution to Big Data storage and computation problems. Its popularity empowered many organizations to adopt this technology. However new challenges appeared, like the need to be able to execute iterative, interactive or in-memory algorithms without the disk-intensive burden of MapReduce. For that very reason Hadoop evolved, decoupling its resources manager from the main computation engine: YARN was born. As a result of its vast adoption, YARN has become the de-facto distributed operating system for Big Data.
Since early releases, Apache Spark provided a way to be executed on YARN-powered clusters. In this talk we will take a look into that technology, and we will learn what it means having Spark running on this kind of infrastructure.
Training – Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document M...Suhail Jamaldeen
Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document Management. The course was based on 55029BC but customized and focused only for SharePoint Online.
An updated version of Understanding the SharePoint basics given at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities. This covers an introduction to SharePoint Objects and some do's and don'ts when beginning your SharePoint Site.
SharePoint and OneDrive play a special role in Office 365, by connecting the workplace with intelligent content management and intranets.
Today we’re going to focus on key areas where you can leverage our innovations to achieve significant benefits. Specifically, how you can:
Share and work together inside and outside your organization through anywhere access to your content and seamless collaboration experiences.
Inform and engage people by connecting them with the resources they need to do their jobs and fostering open conversations.
Transform business process by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows.
Harness collective knowledge by making it easier to find information and expertise right when it's needed, and to encourage best practice sharing.
All with the with full confidence that you can protect and manage your organization’s content as well as extend and develop on SharePoint to meet your unique business needs.
SharePoint powers content collaboration across Microsoft 365
SharePoint is the foundational service in Microsoft 365 that powers content collaboration across the suite, enabling people and organizations to:
Store, access and share files from anywhere with OneDrive
Collaborate on Office documents in real-time
Work together on shared content in Microsoft Teams and within Outlook
Build dynamic and engaging intranet sites enriched with Yammer and Stream
Automate business process and build no-code apps with PowerApps and Flow
Advantages of storing and sharing content in Microsoft 365
Storing and sharing content (Office docs, photos, PDF’s, 3D images, etc.) in Office 365 has the following benefits for end-users and for IT:
End-user benefits:
Simple, consistent and secure file access and sharing experiences across O365 apps and devices
Office document co-authoring with the latest Office desktop clients, mobile apps, and Office Online
AI – intelligent features like personalized search and discovery, recommended content, most recently used, trending sites, viewing insights
Benefits for IT and developers:
Intelligent, built-in security consistent across O365, including DLP, conditional access, ATP, ransomware recovery with Files Restore, etc.
Unified management – common admin, governance and management across users, apps, devices and services
Extensibility – since SharePoint files, sites, lists and pages are available in the Microsoft Graph, developers can use the single Graph API to connect to 3rd party services and build custom solutions
SEE MORE, INCLUDING A FREE TRIAL, AT: www.PivotTable-Pro.com
This video introduces you to Microsoft Excel 2013 and its program window.
Free Excel Training Course: http://www.SpreadsheetTrainer.com
Contents:
***Introduction - What is Microsoft Excel?***
***The Excel Program Window***
Program Window - Border & Title
How to Maximise the Excel Window
How to Minimise the Excel Window
How to Close the Excel Window
***The Excel Ribbon***
How to Hide & Show the Ribbon
What is the Excel Ribbon?
What are Groups?
What are Command Buttons?
What are Smart Tags?
What are Dialog Boxes?
What is the File tab & Backstage Menu?
The Excel Ribbon Shrinks When you Resize the Window
***Other Program Window Elements***
What is the Quick Access Toolbar?
What is the Name Box?
What is the Formula Bar?
How to Resize the Formula Bar
What is the Status bar?
Where are the View shortcuts?
How to use the Scroll Bars
What is the Spreadsheet Area?
What is the Mini Toolbar?
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Power BI is a business analytics service that enables you to see all of your data through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports...
hbaseconasia2017: HBase Practice At XiaoMiHBaseCon
Zheng Hu
We'll share some HBase experience at XiaoMi:
1. How did we tuning G1GC for HBase Clusters.
2. Development and performance of Async HBase Client.
hbaseconasia2017 hbasecon hbase xiaomi https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hbasecon-asia-2017-tickets-34935546159#
Break free of the training room: Webinars for Early Childhood Education Profe...Engagement Strategies, LLC
Have you ever wished it were easier to offer professional development to participants who are at remote locations? Or, thought "There must be a way to train staff without the hassle of obtaining training space"? Of course you know about webinars. They are are hot right now...but some
can be so boring and uninspiring. Participants are often disappointed. Learning a little about the basics and a few tips and tricks will help you deliver remote training that rocks your audiences. This session is intended for administrators and staff development professionals of organizations
and direct service programs including directors, faculty, consultants and trainers, who plan and execute pre-service and ongoing in-service professional development. The purpose of the session is to provide participants with an overview of the technical options for webinar hosting,
and what it takes to present highly interactive online meetings and webinars that offer lasting impact and actionable learning. Considerable time will be spent discussing best practice for executing remote live training for professional development and online coaching sessions. Hybrid online and live training will be discussed, along with ideas about how to
ensure learners are prepared for and are able to implement the content. Join this session to learn how to deliver powerful webinars & online meetings that inspire your audiences.
Training – Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document M...Suhail Jamaldeen
Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document Management. The course was based on 55029BC but customized and focused only for SharePoint Online.
An updated version of Understanding the SharePoint basics given at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities. This covers an introduction to SharePoint Objects and some do's and don'ts when beginning your SharePoint Site.
SharePoint and OneDrive play a special role in Office 365, by connecting the workplace with intelligent content management and intranets.
Today we’re going to focus on key areas where you can leverage our innovations to achieve significant benefits. Specifically, how you can:
Share and work together inside and outside your organization through anywhere access to your content and seamless collaboration experiences.
Inform and engage people by connecting them with the resources they need to do their jobs and fostering open conversations.
Transform business process by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows.
Harness collective knowledge by making it easier to find information and expertise right when it's needed, and to encourage best practice sharing.
All with the with full confidence that you can protect and manage your organization’s content as well as extend and develop on SharePoint to meet your unique business needs.
SharePoint powers content collaboration across Microsoft 365
SharePoint is the foundational service in Microsoft 365 that powers content collaboration across the suite, enabling people and organizations to:
Store, access and share files from anywhere with OneDrive
Collaborate on Office documents in real-time
Work together on shared content in Microsoft Teams and within Outlook
Build dynamic and engaging intranet sites enriched with Yammer and Stream
Automate business process and build no-code apps with PowerApps and Flow
Advantages of storing and sharing content in Microsoft 365
Storing and sharing content (Office docs, photos, PDF’s, 3D images, etc.) in Office 365 has the following benefits for end-users and for IT:
End-user benefits:
Simple, consistent and secure file access and sharing experiences across O365 apps and devices
Office document co-authoring with the latest Office desktop clients, mobile apps, and Office Online
AI – intelligent features like personalized search and discovery, recommended content, most recently used, trending sites, viewing insights
Benefits for IT and developers:
Intelligent, built-in security consistent across O365, including DLP, conditional access, ATP, ransomware recovery with Files Restore, etc.
Unified management – common admin, governance and management across users, apps, devices and services
Extensibility – since SharePoint files, sites, lists and pages are available in the Microsoft Graph, developers can use the single Graph API to connect to 3rd party services and build custom solutions
SEE MORE, INCLUDING A FREE TRIAL, AT: www.PivotTable-Pro.com
This video introduces you to Microsoft Excel 2013 and its program window.
Free Excel Training Course: http://www.SpreadsheetTrainer.com
Contents:
***Introduction - What is Microsoft Excel?***
***The Excel Program Window***
Program Window - Border & Title
How to Maximise the Excel Window
How to Minimise the Excel Window
How to Close the Excel Window
***The Excel Ribbon***
How to Hide & Show the Ribbon
What is the Excel Ribbon?
What are Groups?
What are Command Buttons?
What are Smart Tags?
What are Dialog Boxes?
What is the File tab & Backstage Menu?
The Excel Ribbon Shrinks When you Resize the Window
***Other Program Window Elements***
What is the Quick Access Toolbar?
What is the Name Box?
What is the Formula Bar?
How to Resize the Formula Bar
What is the Status bar?
Where are the View shortcuts?
How to use the Scroll Bars
What is the Spreadsheet Area?
What is the Mini Toolbar?
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Power BI is a business analytics service that enables you to see all of your data through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports...
hbaseconasia2017: HBase Practice At XiaoMiHBaseCon
Zheng Hu
We'll share some HBase experience at XiaoMi:
1. How did we tuning G1GC for HBase Clusters.
2. Development and performance of Async HBase Client.
hbaseconasia2017 hbasecon hbase xiaomi https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hbasecon-asia-2017-tickets-34935546159#
Break free of the training room: Webinars for Early Childhood Education Profe...Engagement Strategies, LLC
Have you ever wished it were easier to offer professional development to participants who are at remote locations? Or, thought "There must be a way to train staff without the hassle of obtaining training space"? Of course you know about webinars. They are are hot right now...but some
can be so boring and uninspiring. Participants are often disappointed. Learning a little about the basics and a few tips and tricks will help you deliver remote training that rocks your audiences. This session is intended for administrators and staff development professionals of organizations
and direct service programs including directors, faculty, consultants and trainers, who plan and execute pre-service and ongoing in-service professional development. The purpose of the session is to provide participants with an overview of the technical options for webinar hosting,
and what it takes to present highly interactive online meetings and webinars that offer lasting impact and actionable learning. Considerable time will be spent discussing best practice for executing remote live training for professional development and online coaching sessions. Hybrid online and live training will be discussed, along with ideas about how to
ensure learners are prepared for and are able to implement the content. Join this session to learn how to deliver powerful webinars & online meetings that inspire your audiences.
Virtual Idea Swap: Coaching Chapter Leaders for SuccessBillhighway
What would we do without chapter volunteers? They’re our everything! Year after year, volunteers step up, take on chapter leadership roles, then step aside for the next set of leaders. So how do we ensure our volunteers have what they need to contribute? How can we inspire them?
In this chapter virtual idea swap—Coaching Chapter Leaders for Success—you'll be able to collaborate with your CRP peers on essential coaching skills aimed at attracting and motivating volunteer leaders.
Beyond High or Low: Multi-fidelity Rapid Prototyping - University of Illinoi...Hannah Deering
University of Illinois WebCon 2016
Rapid prototyping allows you to quickly test out ideas, discover the duds and build up the winners, efficiently steering towards the best solutions. However, creating prototypes rapidly is often easier said than done. This talk will advance the discussion beyond simply high-fidelity or low-fidelity to a more nuanced understanding of prototype complexity. We'll explore how fine tuning each of the six dimensions of fidelity can significantly reduce the amount of effort needed to accomplish your prototypes goals. I will share real world examples of how this approach has helped to hone building prototypes on a fast-paced agile development team.
In this presentation you'll learn:
How prototyping can fit into your design process
How to identify and focus your prototyping goals
How to select the right level of fidelity to achieve those goals
Code quality directly impacts how easy or hard your job is. The higher the quality, the easier it is for anyone (including you) to quickly jump in and get to work. Where do you start? In this session, Tonya Mork will empower you to simplify your code while dramatically increasing its code quality.
It's all about building <human code>, code that is highly human readable and understandable.
This slide deck is from a session I gave for WPSessions. https://wpsessions.com/sessions/code-quality-makes-jobs-easier/
Deck with links to all the tools discussed at the recent Sydney Instructional Design and eLearning #IDeL MeetUp. Includes H5P, Mobirise, Canva, Videoscribe, Feathercap and Pixton.
Hard and Soft skills: be successful in the IT marketDavide Benvegnù
A talk in Hong Kong CityU Apps Lab about Hard Skills, Soft skills and hot to achieve them.
CityU Apps Lab (CAL) is hosted by the Hong Kong City University
My presentation at Web2Expo, NYC 2009 - on Building a Successful Developer Community. Included is tips on building your community, your site, SEO tips, free products to help, and more.
VisibleThread Docs Training for New Users - Updated July 2014 (VT version 2.10)VisibleThread
This is a training deck for new users to VisibleThread for Docs. Shows how to create a compliance matrix, analyze docs for risk indicators and measure clarity of doc content. Tailored for Proposal Development responding to large RFPs
Inclusive Practices in Project Management: Leveraging Digital Frameworks for Diverse Minds
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Caroline Keep, PhD researcher Digitization in Education Organisation, University of Central Lancaster
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
This talk aimed to provide actionable insights and strategies for embedding inclusivity into the fabric of project management, thereby unlocking the new dimensions of productivity and innovation in the digital sphere.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Do you find it tough to cut through the noise and reach your workforce? What about getting employees to take action? Marketers have worked on optimizing communications and results for decades, and it’s time to borrow from their playbook. More and more human resources teams are gaining access to the tools and metrics used by marketers, opening the door to new data and empowerment. You can leverage these marketing tactics and best practices within your own organization as you prepare your company for the next wave of HR innovation.
In this webinar, you’ll hear directly from marketers who spend most of their time implementing complex B2B and B2C marketing campaigns. They will share highlights of what they have learned from years of marketing and experimentation. You will learn about the tactics that work best, those that don’t and the tools that you can leverage when you put on your marketing hat.
Specifically, you will learn about:
Marketing tactics that are most useful for improving HR outcomes.
Why experimentation is crucial for marketing success and how to experiment.
How leading HR teams are leveraging marketing metrics on a daily basis.
The impact that high quality mark-up can have on accessibility, performance, ...Matthew Deeprose
Video, files, transcript, and links available at: https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/high_quality-markup_impact.html
Synopsis
Going beyond accessibility checklists, you may quickly get bogged down with technical details and acronyms that you feel you may never understand. In this fast-paced 30-minute presentation I use worked examples, with screen reader demonstrations, to cover topics including:
-semantic landmarks
-using ARIA attributes to improve the screen reader experience
respecting motion and colour preference
-dark and light themes
-the new contrast measurement in WCAG 3
-and more.
My hope is that by the end of this presentation you feel more informed and ready to dive deeper into web accessibility.
Sustaining accessibility efforts through accessibility-related appraisal obje...Matthew Deeprose
Video, transcript, files, and links available at: https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/objectives.html
Synopsis
How can IT departments sustain their accessibility efforts? While there are vital procedural and technical answers we should also consider the importance of cultural change. In this presentation, Tamsyn Smith and Matthew Deeprose will discuss early work on embedding accessibility within appraisal objectives.
Recent experiences have demonstrated that University staff and students expect to use online resources with a variety of devices, making full use of accessibility features such as reflow, captions, and text-to-speech.
Such features benefit everyone, but especially the increasing proportion of university students who self-report a disability.
University Information Technology departments know they must commit to accessibility; indeed, they have a legal obligation to do so, but how can they take this ambition and embed accessibility within their policies and processes?
In this presentation, we will share:
approaches to building a digital accessibility policy for university IT departments.
techniques for embedding accessibility within IT development processes by ‘shifting left’.
examples from within the Higher Education and wider IT sectors.
Digital diligence: guidance on using 'unsupported' toolsMatthew Deeprose
Presented during the Future Teacher "Getting savvy with online tools" webinar. This covers our work on dealing with use of tools that are not centrally supported but that academic staff wish to use with their students.
Introduction to Keyboard Navigation and AccessibilityMatthew Deeprose
What are the accessibility principles of Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust? Why is keyboard navigation so important within accessibility?
The Bluffer’s Guide to Blackboard Theme AccessibilityMatthew Deeprose
With the rapid move to online teaching, ensuring equitable access to our learning environment has never been more important. Recent legislation has brought an accessibility requirement for public sector organisations such as Universities. How can we ensure that our Blackboard environment reflects our institutional brand whilst following accessibility guidelines?
Customising the Blackboard Responsive theme for the Learn Original Experience continues to be a hot topic on the Blackboard Community site. We customise the theme both to improve the user experience, and to brand our environment with our institutional colours.
In this session I will put recent legislative and regulatory changes that relate to accessibility into a global context and explain how they impact University platforms such as Blackboard.
Using examples and developments from my own experience at the University of Southampton, I will provide practical advice and tips on what we should be doing when we customise our Blackboard theme. We all want our Blackboard environments to look great and appear congruent when viewed alongside our other institutional platforms. We also want to ensure changes we make are inclusive to our whole user community.
I will demonstrate how you may check the accessibility of your own custom Blackboard theme and illustrate the application of a number of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to Blackboard theme customisation. I will also discuss how the work we do in this area can inform the accessibility statements we are required to create for our Virtual Learning Environment.
How to ensure accessible use of color in learning resources and materials ali...Matthew Deeprose
Is it possible to be both on brand and accessible? WCAG guides us on making our color choices accessible. We will demonstrate a simple and repeatable solution to share with your colleagues. Our innovative matrix concept will help YOU to determine accessible color combinations within your institutional brand palette.
Many students, such as those who are color blind, may not self-identify as having a disability. Poor use of color in online courses can have a detrimental impact on certain groups of students, including those who are color blind or have a visual impairment. Likewise, most people find vibrating color combinations difficult to read. Appropriate use of color (especially when used to distinguish and organize your content) can benefit everyone and reduce the 'burden' of ‘reasonable adjustments’. However, we design our learning materials, we should ensure that when we use color we do so accessibly.
A constraint that many practitioners must work within is their education institution’s brand color palette, which may not have been chosen with accessibility in mind.
We will share a simple and easy to use approach that can help you use colors accessibly while remaining congruent and consistent with your institution's color scheme.
Better Blackboard Help: Where your users need it, when they want it.Matthew Deeprose
It has never been more important to provide localised, central, relevant, and up to date support and messaging within our Blackboard environments. This presentation is a practical guide to how you can use freely available tools to provide contextual, just in time support sign-posting staff and students to local support resources from within Blackboard Learn (original experience).
As Blackboard administrators, learning designers, technologists, programme leads, and support staff, we often wish we could be alongside our users to say, “well in these circumstances we recommend using the feature in this way”, or “you could use that tool, but there’s a much more effective tool over there”, right when the intervention would be most relevant and timely. In current times we may also wish to highlight newly provisioned services and tools such as Blackboard Collaborate.
Blackboard allows us to customise the language pack, but have you noticed that most users will just skim past plain text and get straight into clicking and submitting? Even when a user follows a help link, they may reach a generic help page rather than the bespoke institution-specific guidance that has been carefully curated to provide the most appropriate help, contextualised for an institution's Managed Learning Environment?
In this session I will demonstrate a new approach for the Original Blackboard Learn Experience to provide proactive assistance to staff and students at the right time and in the right place. At the University of Southampton, this method resulted in significantly higher engagement with institutional support resources and has the potential to reduce support calls and encourage better Blackboard usage.
I will show you how you can recreate this approach using free and open-source software. By the end of the session you will be eager to get back to work and start implementing the techniques I will show you.
Making it simple to ensure the use of colour is both on brand and accessibleMatthew Deeprose
With more than two million people in the UK living with a visual impairment and many more having difficulties with their sight, it is crucial that, when we create content, we make accessible colour choices.
I will explain the importance of considering contrast when we use colour and share my own journey and lessons that resulted in the development of a method to make it simpler and easier to help my colleagues make accessible colour choices.
If time allows I will demonstrate further real-world examples and solutions that you can replicate at your own institution.
The practical bluffer's guide to blackboard theme accessibilityMatthew Deeprose
Presented at Bb World 2020. With the rapid move to online teaching in the current climate of COVID-19, ensuring equitable access to our learning environment has never been more important.
When we customise the Blackboard theme (original experience) to align it with our institutional colours, we must consider accessibility. Based on my own experience at the University of Southampton (in the UK) I will share practical lessons and recommendations, of how to ensure your theme customisation complies with web content accessibility guidelines.
This presentation was used as part of the Digital Learning Connects webinar about Blackboard discussion boards. Half way through the presentation I went into a live demo, which you cannot of course see here. I'm sharing the slides more widely in case they are of use.
This presentation was to the Blackboard Mobile and Collaborate Usergroup at the Durham 2020 Blackboard Conference.
The presentation covers the recent UK accessibility regulations in their global context and provides some examples of customising Blackboard to meet those regulations whilst aligning to an institutional brand.
Blended Learning Features within the Blackboard VLEMatthew Deeprose
We were asked to give a presentation outlining tools that may help the delivery of a new blended learning programme. These are the slides that went with our presenation.
Blackboard Masterclass #1 for Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. In this presentation we cover some features of Blackboard that may not have been heavily used previously within the Faculy of Health Sciences.
Blackboard, Printing, Lecture Consoles for Presessional InstructorsMatthew Deeprose
A presentation delivered to instructors of pre-sessional students at the University of Southampton. This presentation covers the Blackboard VLE, printing and scanning, and using the lecture bench consoles.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Opendatabay - Open Data Marketplace.pptxOpendatabay
Opendatabay.com unlocks the power of data for everyone. Open Data Marketplace fosters a collaborative hub for data enthusiasts to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets.
First ever open hub for data enthusiasts to collaborate and innovate. A platform to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets. Through robust quality control and innovative technologies like blockchain verification, opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of datasets, empowering users to make data-driven decisions with confidence. Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance the data exploration, analysis, and discovery experience.
From intelligent search and recommendations to automated data productisation and quotation, Opendatabay AI-driven features streamline the data workflow. Finding the data you need shouldn't be a complex. Opendatabay simplifies the data acquisition process with an intuitive interface and robust search tools. Effortlessly explore, discover, and access the data you need, allowing you to focus on extracting valuable insights. Opendatabay breaks new ground with a dedicated, AI-generated, synthetic datasets.
Leverage these privacy-preserving datasets for training and testing AI models without compromising sensitive information. Opendatabay prioritizes transparency by providing detailed metadata, provenance information, and usage guidelines for each dataset, ensuring users have a comprehensive understanding of the data they're working with. By leveraging a powerful combination of distributed ledger technology and rigorous third-party audits Opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of every dataset. Security is at the core of Opendatabay. Marketplace implements stringent security measures, including encryption, access controls, and regular vulnerability assessments, to safeguard your data and protect your privacy.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
2. Agenda
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Who am I?
Why is accessibility important?
How do we know what good looks like?
Alternative text
Colour shouldn’t be the only way we convey meaning.
Use enough contrast
UOS_PBI_Theme_1.json
Can you get around using the keyboard
alone?
Focus indicators and focus order
Links
Titles, labels and abbreviations
Automated testing
Next steps
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3. What do I know?
3
Accessibility
PowerBI
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11. Accessibility guidelines have four high-level
principles.
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Perceivable
Cater to our
senses.
Operable
We can use
the site.
Understandable
Readable
and
predictable.
Robust
Compatible
across
devices -
even those
to come in
the future.
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There is text in the image that is not
represented as real text nearby.
It’s an image used as a link.
The image contributes to the
meaning of the page.
Yes
The image is used for visual
effect / background.
The image is made redundant
by other content on the page.
No
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15. Writing alternative text
“If I were describing the
image over the phone to
someone, what would I
say?”
“Imagine bringing up the
image in conversation:
what details should be
mentioned so that
someone who isn’t looking
at the image can still
understand it?”
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17. Colour shouldn’t be the only way we convey
meaning.
Example of why you should not use colour as the
only means to convey meaning.
Ready to submit your
final assignment?
Example using simulated Deuteranopia rendering in Google Chrome
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19. Testing for colour blindness
Available from rendering
options in Chrome / Edge
Dev Tools.
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20. Colour shouldn’t be the only thing used to convey
meaning. 2
Example where colour is not the only means to
convey meaning.
Ready to submit your
final assignment?
No Yes
Example using simulated Deuteranopia rendering in Google Chrome
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Photo of earlier
examples on a laptop
screen with lots of
glare.
Using sufficient
contrast will enhance
the accessibility of your
colour choices.
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29. A rule of thumb
Light text on a dark background is easy to read
Dark text on a light background is easy to read
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30. Contrasts that may be hard to read 1
Hard to read Hard to read Hard to read
Hard to read? Hard to read? Hard to read?
Easy to read Easy to read Easy to read
Light text on a dark background is easy to read
Dark text on a light background is easy to read
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31. Contrasts that may be hard to read 2
Hard to read Hard to read Hard to read
Hard to read? Hard to read? Hard to read?
Easy to read Easy to read Easy to read
Light text on a dark background is easy to read
Dark text on a light background is easy to read
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32. Contrasts that may be hard to read 3
Hard to read Hard to read Hard to read
Hard to read? Hard to read? Hard to read?
Easy to read Easy to read Easy to read
Light text on a dark background is easy to read
Dark text on a light background is easy to read
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33. Contrasts that may be hard to read 4
Hard to read Hard to read Hard to read
Hard to read? Hard to read? Hard to read?
Easy to read Easy to read Easy to read
Light text on a dark background is easy to read
Dark text on a light background is easy to read
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34. Checking the contrast of two colours
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide
a method for us to ensure that when we use colour
we can do so in a way that is accessible.
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36. Use an online checker
whocanuse.com
Created by Corey Ginnivan
@coreyginnivan
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37. Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10
•Free download
•Features excellent colour
picker.
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38. Set options and then use keyboard shortcut
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39. Copy colour code to clipboard, or show HEX / RGB /
HSL etc
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40. The ratios to remember
3:1
4.5:
1
7:1
Minimum for
Graphical
Objects / UI
1.4.11 Non-text Contrast (Level AA)
AA
Minimum for Text
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA)
AAA
Enhanced level
for Text
1.4.6 Contrast (Enhanced) (Level AAA):
(not to scale)
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41. Revisiting hard to read contrast examples
Hard to read
1.64:1
Hard to read
1.84:1
Hard to read
1.19:1
Hard to read? 2.71:1 Hard to read? 4:1 Hard to read? 2.96:1
Easy to read 21:1 Easy to read 15.27:1 Easy to read
7.58:1
Light text on a dark background is easy to read
Dark text on a light background is easy to read
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46. Title etc / foreground
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Can you get around using the keyboard
alone?
Focus indicators and focus order
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48. Can you get around using the keyboard alone.
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49. Keyboard (non-mouse) navigation
Navigate website using tab, enter/return, cursor keys
Interaction Keystrokes
Navigate to
most elements
Tab
Shift + Tab - navigate backward
Link Enter (PC) / Return (Mac)
Button
Enter (PC) / Return (Mac)
or Spacebar
Checkbox
Spacebar - check/uncheck a
checkbox
Radio buttons
↑ / ↓ or ← / → = select an option.
Tab - move to the next element.
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50. Additional Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerBI
(web view)
Command Shortcuts
Move focus to visual
menu
Alt + Shift + F10
Show as a table Alt + Shift + F11
Enter a visual or layer Enter
Exit a layer or visual Esc
Select or unselect
data point
Space
Multi-select data
points
Ctrl + Space
Show data point
details
Ctrl + H
Clear data selection Ctrl + Shift + C
Command Shortcuts
Slicer control Enter
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58. Link text
The University is a corporation formed by Royal Charter and
holds charitable status to learn more click here. Our aims,
powers and the governance framework within which we
operate are set out in our Charter, Statutes and Ordinances.
Click here to read them.
Governance of the University is overseen by the Council and
the Senate. Click here. These bodies are responsible for
approving our mission and strategy, monitoring our
performance, scrutinising our finances and directing our
academic functions. Read more.
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59. Link text 2
The University is a corporation formed by Royal Charter and
holds charitable status to learn more click here. Our aims,
powers and the governance framework within which we
operate are set out in our Charter, Statutes and Ordinances.
Click here to read them.
Governance of the University is overseen by the Council and
the Senate. Click here. These bodies are responsible for
approving our mission and strategy, monitoring our
performance, scrutinising our finances and directing our
academic functions. Read more.
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60. Link text 3
• The University is a corporation formed by Royal Charter
and holds charitable status to learn more click here. Our
aims, powers and the governance framework within
which we operate are set out in our Charter, Statutes
and Ordinances. Governance of the University is
overseen by the Council and the Senate. These bodies
are responsible for approving our mission and strategy,
monitoring our performance, scrutinising our finances
and directing our academic functions.
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61. Link text 4
The University is a corporation formed by Royal Charter
and holds charitable status to learn more click here. Our
aims, powers and the governance framework within
which we operate are set out in our Charter, Statutes and
Ordinances. Governance of the University is overseen by
the Council and the Senate. These bodies are
responsible for approving our mission and strategy,
monitoring our performance, scrutinising our finances
and directing our academic functions.
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66. Titles, labels and abbreviations
Avoid using acronyms or jargon
without explanation.
Titles, axis labels, legend values,
and data labels should be easy to
read and understand.
Position data labels above or
below your series with care.
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73. Agenda
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Who am I?
Why is accessibility important?
How do we know what good looks like?
Alternative text
Colour shouldn’t be the only way we convey meaning.
Use enough contrast
UOS_PBI_Theme_1.json
Can you get around using the keyboard
alone?
Focus indicators and focus order
Links
Titles, labels and abbreviations
Automated testing
Next steps
Q+A
Matthew Deeprose
74. Resources
• Overview of accessibility
in Power BI
•PowBility
• Stop Letting Accessibility
Be Optional In Your
Power BI Reports
• Keyboard shortcuts in
Power BI Desktop
•Power BI Screen Reader
Accessibility
•Power BI Report
Accessibility Checklist
•Accessibility insights
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Hi everyone, I’m Matthew Deeprose. Thanks to Mike for inviting me to talk with you about accessibility.
I’m going to introduce the session by
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telling you a bit about who I am, why accessibility is important, and how we know what “good” looks like.
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The bulk of our presentation will be about different aspects of accessibility relating to PowerBI, starting with some visual aspects like alternative text and colour.
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Then we’ll cover some aspects of how users interact with PowerBI reports.
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And then other aspects like descriptive links, and using titles, labels and avoiding abbreviations where possible.
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We’ll conclude by looking at some possible next steps including options for automated testing. To make the most of our time please save questions to the end.
I have to go to another meeting at 10:30 but we can continue the discussion in Teams
In terms of who I am
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I’ve been learning about accessibility since 2018 and am slowly building up my knowledge.
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But in terms of PowerBI I know nothing other than I have used one PowerBI report, so please keep that in mind and have patience with me. Having looked through the community on Teams, I’m in awe of your level of knowledge and community spirit.
I’ve tried to make this presentation relevant to the PowerBI community, but it’s coming from a place of Power BI ignorance. I use one PowerBI report as an example, but this is not meant as criticism of those who made the report – it’s just the one report I have experience of using.
Why is accessibility important? I’d like to open with something that Gareth Ford Williams recently said, Gareth was the head of accessibility at the BBC.
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No one is disabled
until
Someone designs something
that does not consider their needs.
Keep this in mind whilst designing PowerBI reports, how can we make sure we’re not putting up barriers that prevent someone from getting the most out of our work?
You may have seen this illustration from Microsoft Design before.
While Almost 1/5 of UK adults have a disability all of us will be affected by temporary impairments like a broken arm, or a migraine, and frequently we will encounter situational impairments such as trying to read what is on a screen whilst experiencing screen glare.
1/12 men are colour blind
74% of people in the UK either wear corrective eyewear or have had laser eye surgery to help them see better.
Ensuring our content meets accessibility guidelines makes it better.
The top frustrations that users report when using the web map to accessibility issues.
https://a11y-collective.com/blog/blind-people-dont-visit-my-website/
But how do we know what good looks like?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is a standard that helps us to know when we are succeeding in accessibility. There are more than 50 guidelines, and these are broken down into four sections.
Perceivable is about catering to our senses. Information and user interface components must be presented in a way that all users can recognise and understand.
Operable is about our ability to use a site, for example using a keyboard if we cannot use a mouse or touchpad.
Understandable means that content is readable and predictable, not only to people but also to any assistive technologies they use.
Robust means that content is compatible with user agents, including those not yet invented. This is mainly about conforming to web standards. We’ll be looking at the first three of these in this presentation, as this is what you have control over when creating Power BI reports.
We’re going to examine some aspects from “Perceivable” first.
When creating PowerBI reports it might be quite rare that you add a picture. But if you do it’s important that those who do not see the picture do no lose the meaning that was behind it.
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This benefits those who cannot see the image, or have turned off images to save bandwidth, as shown in the screenshot on the right.
First we can consider whether alternative text is required for an image.
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We do need to provide alternative text if the image contains text that is not also represented nearby.
Or if it’s an image that is used as a link, for example you select the image in order to go to a different web address.
Or if the image contributes to the meaning of the page and if the picture was not on the page at all that an vital part of the meaning the user was expected to get would be missing.
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We don’t need to add alternative text if the image is just being used for decorative purposes or if the image is just reinforcing or duplicating meaning held elsewhere on the page.
A good way to approach writing alternative text is to imagine you were describing the image over the phone to someone… what you say?
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Or consider how you would describe in in conversation with someone, what details would you need to cover so that someone who is not looking at the image can understand it?
You can provide alt text for any object on a Power BI Desktop report. The Alt Text textbox in PowerBI has a limit of 250 characters.
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I don’t know anything about this but according to Microsoft you can use DAX measures and conditional formatting to create dynamic alt text.
Next we’re thinking about colour, we shouldn’t use colour alone as the only way to convey meaning. Imagine that you are submitting a piece of work and you see two buttons.
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Now if you had red/green colour blindness which is the most common type of colour blindness it would be difficult to know which button you were meant to press..
It’s great to see that you have been discussing this already within your community.
There are options to simulate color blindness in into Chrome and Edge dev tools, you can also use browser plugins to simulate colour blindness.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-83/#vision-deficiencies
They main method I recommend is to not rely on colour alone. For example here I added Yes and No labels, that make clear the purpose of the buttons.
Using markers and labels in graphs is a good example. On the right I have added labels to show details.
Now when we look at the graph in black and white we can understand the graph on the right still thanks to its data labels, but the graph on the left is going to be very difficult to use. A good practice is to test any content in grey scale to be sure you are not relying on colour alone for meaning.
Here’s another example in the case of a line graph. On the right I’ve made the graph use markers and dotted lines to differentiate the two lines.
You can the difference clearly in grey scale.
Power BI has a handy “show marker” feature you can turn on.
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take a look at these four text boxes. Does the text seem easy to read to you?
I expect these examples are much clearer. In these examples we’re using more contrast and text is legible.
Screen glare is an example of a situational impairment, and in the photo I’m sharing you can see how screen glare makes those earlier examples more difficult to read.
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Now we have the examples where the text has sufficient contrast. Although screen glare still makes it difficult to read I think most would agree that it is easier.
A rule of thumb is that light text on a dark background should be easier to read and conversely dark text on a light background is easy to read.
It can get a bit more tricky when we look at specifics. Here are 9 text boxes of varying colours in three rows.
The top row, most would probably agree is hard to read
The bottom row most would probably agree is easy to read.
But what about the middle row?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide a method for us to ensure that when we use colour we can do so in a way that is accessible. It involves comparing the relative luminance of the text colour with the background colour.
The result is a “contrast ratio” from 1:1 to 21:1. The higher the number the better. For text we should aim at least at 4.5:1 contrast ratio.
There are many sites online that can calculate contrast ratios, my favourite is who can use .com
The way they work is you paste in two colour codes and it tells you the contrast ratio. Usually these are “hex” codes. How do you know what the codes for your colours are?
I recommend using Microsoft’s free “PowerToys” suite of utilities.
It has a very handy colour picker tool that you can turn on and then use by pressing a key combination.
It will tell you the html, rgb and hsl values for a colour that you select from on screen.
In terms of the contrast ratios you need to remember.
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For parts that don’t contain text, like icons or symbols, the colour of the icon should have a contrast ratio of 3:1 or higher to the background colour.
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For text 4.5:1 is the minimum level of contrast.
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There is also an enhanced guideline aiming at a minimum of 7:1 or higher.
If we go back to our nine examples, here you can see the contrast ratios. That middle row of examples were all below 4.5:1 and therefore should not be used for presenting text.
I saw a question in the PowerBI community about your json file.
This has a selection of colours from the University brand, and they have been assigned to different aspects of a PowerBI template.
I analysed all of the colors and possible combinations in your JSON file. I shared the link in the chat earlier.
In the table G means it’s ok for graphical objects – the contrast is 3:1 or highter
AA means it’s ok for text or graphical objects at 4.5:1 or higher
AAA means it meets the enhanced level for text or graphical objects of 7:1 or higher.
I’ve picked out a few things to consider. Using the mobile view you can view tables for each colour, one at time.
This section is about the background colour. Only 6 colours used in the theme have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio or higher
The colour used for titles, callouts, headers, and labels has good contrast with 11 of the other colours used, whilst the foreground colour only has sufficient contrast with 3 other colours in the theme.
Of course I don’t know the context of how these colours are used. I would suggest as a next step to consider what colour combinations are likely, for example will the data colours have labels and what colour is planned for those labels, then you might want to adjust the data colours until you have found shades that will have sufficient contrast.
Next we’re going to consider some “operable” aspects, in particular using the keyboard.
Not everyone will use a mouse or touch pad, so it’s important that we can use a keyboard to interact with PowerBI reports too. The Keyboard is also the interaction layer through which other assistive technologies like switch devices navigate pages.
Using the keyboard to navigate a webpage will typically involve using the tab key to move between links, and the enter key to select something, the space bar is used to perform an action, and the cursor keys move between radio buttons or list items.
Further keyboard shortcuts are available for PowerBI, these are shown to keyboard users early when the start navigating a report.
More at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-accessibility-keyboard-shortcuts
Many of us will have only used a mouse or touchpad, and will be familiar with a screen that looks like this.
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How effective would be if the mouse pointer was not visible?
Keyboard users don’t have a mouse pointer, but a “focus indicator” usually a box, appears around the element they have navigated to. Here is an example over a check box.
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Here is an example around a select menu.
Both of these are fairly clear because the focus indicator is black and the background in these screenshots is white.
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But here is a focus indicator around a dropdown menu. The background is a kind of turquoise blue. Now it’s less easy to see due to there being less contrast between the focus indicator and the background.
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It looks like you cannot set the colour of the focus indicator, it seems to be fixed to black, so be aware as you use colour in your PowerBI reports that if you use darker colours to fill in parts of your report it may make the focus indicator hard to see, so try to keep this in mind, maybe lighter background colours with dark text are better?
There is a feature in Edge to make the focus indicator EXTRA visible. I’ve put a link to this in the notes of the slide:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/accessibility-features-in-microsoft-edge-4c696192-338e-9465-b2cd-bd9b698ad19a#bkmk_high_visibility_outline
So we covered being able to see the focus indicator, the other consideration is that as you use the tab key to move around a report that you should be moved around in a logical sequence.
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I’m going to show you a video I recorded using the accessibility insights browser plugin, it will visualise where the focus is moving.
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It’s going to start at the University logo, then the report title, then the academic year drop down as it continues the focus order does not appear particularly logical
Fortunately we can set the tab order in Power BI.
In the Selection pane, selecting Tab order displays the current tab order for your report. You can select an object, then use the up and down arrow buttons to move the object in the hierarchy, or you can click and drag with the mouse. Selecting the number next to an object hides the object from the tab order.
If you're including decorative shapes and images in your report, you should remove those from the tab order.
Next we’re going to consider aspects of “understandable”.
When we put links in our reports we should make it clear within the name of the link what will happen when we select it. This is useful for everyone.
For those who can visually see a page, it’s common to scan over what you see without looking too much at the detail.
Imagine that we visually scanned the links of a website and this is what we saw – it’s not clear where any of these links will take us.
We have to read the surrounding text to understand the purpose of these links.
But if we write descriptive links, we can much more easily scan the page and find what we want.
Without having to read the surrounding text.
This is even more the case for those who use screen readers. An analogue for that visual scanning is that screen readers can generate a list of links on a page. But if the links say “click here” or “read more” that’s not useful.
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In comparison in this example each of the links is unique and is understandable in isolation.
It’s also important to underline your links, don’t rely on the colour of the link alone to express the meaning that something is a link, just underline it.
Here’s two examples. In both cases the word “here” is underlined.
Now that you know not everyone uses a mouse, you know not everyone will be “clicking”. You may have noticed I try to say the word “select” rather than click.
We could rewrite the first link to “Email the Data Analytics and Insight team”.
We could rewrite the link on the right to “Visit the Data Analytics and Insight SharePoint site”.
You might also have noticed that the text in these boxes is center aligned.
When text will run over more than one line I recommend you avoid centre aligning text.
Compare the passage on the left with the passage on the right. I have marked where each line begins. By left aligning the text we make it much more readable. This benefits everyone in terms of readability and reading speed but can particularly help readers with dyslexia.
We're going to finish with a few tips that might be obvious but are worth mentioning. These are all taken from Microsoft's very useful accessibility guide for PowerBI reports.
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We should try to avoid jargon or acronyms.
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As you can see in this example CY has been expanded to Current Year. I've noticed that some of our PowerBI reports have an explanation page which looks to be a nice way to add this kind of information in complex reports.
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We should aim to include titles, axis details, and data labels.
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In this example the horizontal and vertical axis labels have been added, as well as data labels for the line graph.
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And when we add the data labels we should take care when positioning them in this example it isn't clear which labels refer to which graph.
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In this version the labels for one line have been set to show above the line, and for the other line the labels are below.
Note also the way that one line is dotted, and the other solid, to help differentiate them.
Now we’re heading to our conclusion
Microsoft provides a free browser based tool for accessibility testing. There are many similar tools, I like this one because the interface is fairly clear. You can use to run a “fast pass” on your powerbi report.
It will point out lots of issues that may be false-positives and are definitely not something you can do anything about, but the colour contrast checks are useful.
You can set a filter to only show certain issues
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It will explain the details, in this case insufficient contrast
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And show you where on the report this issue occurs.
You might find this is too verbose or confusing, but some may find it useful.
In terms of next steps I would recommend making contact with the disability staff network and ask about their experiences with PowerBI. In the past some members of this group have offered to help test things and give feedback.
https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/UoSDisabilityStaffNetwork
If you’re interested in learning more I collate my accessibility presentations and blog posts on my website. I always include a very large bibliography of links and resources for each one.
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And our Accessibility Community of Practice is open to all. This year it has been difficult to keep momentum because we don’t have any volunteers to produce peer tutorials, but you can view our recording and be the first to hear about forthcoming plans to re-animate the community over the next months.
https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3af18e35da49dc4361ad6b06cc94b70234%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=0b49ec6f-66f9-4795-bc19-e5430ae979a9&tenantId=4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8
So we’ve covered a lot in this session, and I hope you’ve found at least some of it relevant and useful, even though I don’t know anything about PowerBI.
This is the start, we can continue the conversation in teams and in follow-up community sessions, I may not have the answers but I have a big network of contacts
My slide deck has links to follow up resources to check out, and I posted more in the chat earlier.
And now I can try to answer any questions you have.