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 data using the API, which should cover the accessibility requirements.
To add the ARIA info, I believe all you need to do is add "role" and "aria-label" parameters to the chart's div tag: <div id="chart_div" role="image" aria-label="This is what the screen reader reads"></div> I haven't used ARIA, so I'm not 100% certain of that, but a google search should help you there. On Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:15:19 AM UTC-4, NMU wrote: > > 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-4, NMU wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> What i want to know is if I use the Table chart visualization, can it be >> read by screen readers? Can a line chart visualization be read by screen >> readers? Or is the more accessible way to use the google Line chart >> visualization and then hard code the Table version in HTML? I'd prefer not >> to code anything in HTML since the Line/Table visualizations are easily >> swappable. >> >> Thanks. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-visualization-api/-/63Jy82kMKZoJ. To post to this group, send email to google-visualization-api@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-visualization-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en.
