Public dashboards
Public-facing dashboards need to be held to more stringent performance and accessibility requirements in order to successfully serve an audience using a large variety of devices and connection strengths.
A dashboard that meets its design goals can fail to be useful if it does not:
- Render quickly in low-bandwidth, low-end device scenarios
- Present fully translated versions of data
- Allow navigation and interaction with assistive devices
An example that meets these goals is California’s commitment to health equity.
The choice of tech powering the charts had a big influence on our ability to meet these goals. A charting library helps you achieve these goals if it has:
- A small code footprint
- Integration hooks for translated strings
- Ability to customize the mouse free navigation experience
The code for the California’s commitment to health equity page uses D3 to meet these goals successfully.
Accessibility tutorial
Konstantin demonstrates how to make sure screenreader users can tab into chart elements and have the relevant tooltips read to them as they move around a data visualization using 3 lines of code