It’s also pretty cool that when the screen reader encounters a visual on the report page it announces the visual title, the chart type, and the alt text. These features are consistent across Power BI Desktop and. They have added keyboard shortcuts to navigate between pages, examine the visuals on a page, and show the data in an accessible format. Power BI is off to a good start with screen reader accessibility and keyboard navigation, but there are some gaps. So here’s my second blog post (the first on my Data Savvy blog) with more of what I learned from this experience.

It was a very interesting and enlightening experience that provided enough content for multiple blog posts. He helped me test various features and do the screen capture you see in the video embedded in the BlueGranite blog post. This all came about because I got the chance to work with my friend Dave Bahr, an accessibility specialist who is also blind and an advanced user of screen readers.

And it shares several tips to make your report more accessible to screen readers and those who navigate via keyboard only. It contains some good reasons why accessibility should be considered when it comes to usability features of any web property or data viz.

I recently wrote a post on the BlueGranite blog called Improving Screen Reader Accessibility in Power BI Reports.

Blind accessibility screen reader