Yes, Table visualizations should be readable by screen readers (they are
just stylized HTML). I doubt that any of the other charts are readable by
screen readers, but maybe someone out there has an ingenious idea of how to
do it. You can create both a chart and table representation of your dat
I also forgot to mention that I don't understand what/how to use role and
aria-label attributes to make the line/table viz accessible. If you could
explain or use an example that would be great. BTW - All my data is DB
driven and created on the fly.
On Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:11:11 AM UTC-
Hi,
I'm in the same position as OP. I'm creating line and table charts using
google viz for government websites. The JavaScript part of it doesn't
concern me. If a user has JS turned off, most of the governments sites wont
work anyways and we've never heard any complaints on the JS part of it.
Hi Scott,
I think your snippet refers to this page (
http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_to_jquery_visualize_accessible_charts_with_html5_from_designing_with/)
,right?
You can still achieve the same results described in the article with Google
Charts. First, you have access to the container wh
Hi Riccardo,
Thanks for your help, I am so tempted to use Google interactive charts, and
have google image charts as the fallback when javascript is disabled.
However I need it to be super accessible because it's going to be on a
government website:
ARIA support now included
Though this appr
Google interactive charts (http://code.google.com/apis/chart) are heavily
dependent on javascript (the entire charts package is one big javascript
library) and won't work if javascript is disabled. On the contrary Google
Image Charts (http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image/) are rendered as
plain
Hi,
The accessibility issue was actually discussed a month ago.
I think that the Visualization charts comply with it in regard to size,
fonts, color schemes, legends positioning etc. that you can control and
alter as you wish.
As for JavaScript fallbacks, it does not have one, however you can writ
