Recently, I received an email from a fellow name Mark Ostroff who has written a guide to designing “accessible” content using the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite (OBIEE). In particular, the guide addresses issues regarding impaired vision, such as colorblindness and total blindness. Despite the fact that Mark began by saying that he and I “could be ‘twins separated at birth’ in our orientation about business intelligence,” by the second email in our conversation it became c...| Visual Business Intelligence
There is a just-emerging conversation by big names in the field of visualization, proposing to rebrand from ‘visualization’ towards ‘data experiences.’ While I love this, folks either seem to be unaware or actively shifting the conversation from where we have been focusing the last few years: including people with disabilities. I hope we aren’t forgotten in this new turn for our field.| Frank Elavsky