Designing Accessible Dashboards

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Six concrete steps — know your audience, list exclusions, solve for one and extend to many, use consistent conventions, provide choice, prioritize content — form a repeatable workflow: design in Tableau Public, run built‑in accessibility checkers and Chartability, get user feedback, iterate. Practical rules include 4.5:1 contrast for normal text (3:1 for large text), minimum readable fonts (12px/16px body, 24px large), keyboard/tab order and double encoding of color with shapes or borders, and reducing clicks to reach key KPIs.

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1. 0:00Introduction and personal story
2. 3:53Legal requirements and guidelines
3. 7:08Inaccessible dashboard examples
4. 11:23Accessible dashboard examples
5. 17:04Six-step design process
6. 25:13Solve for one extend to many
7. 31:11Practical accessibility tips
8. 40:14Workflow and implementation
9. 42:59Key takeaways and closing

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