I left project controls a few months ago, just in time for Microsoft to release a native Gantt visual for Power BI. Did that stop me from testing it the moment it landed? Of course not. Leaving project controls analytics…
FabCon Europe in Barcelona gave me plenty to think about, particularly as someone who has spent much of my career working with data and Power BI and is still relatively new to the wider Fabric ecosystem. One session that stayed…
I’ve got a new article over on the Zure blog: Accessibility Helps Us Build Better Power BI Solutions. In the article, I look at how digital accessibility can help us create Power BI solutions that are clearer, easier to use…
Following the latest changes on the PBIX A11y website (catch up at PBIX A11y update: alt text for groups, a rebuilt tab order check, and a clutter fix), I’ve brought the same fixes over to the PBIR A11y CLI. First…
A few updates went live on pbiaudits.com this week, following the investigation I shared in Alt Text for Grouped Visuals in Power BI: What I Learnt from a Pull Request. That investigation also led me to revisit tab order, including…
It all started with a pull request for PBIR A11y CLI. PBIR A11y CLI is the command-line version of my PBIX A11y accessibility checker. John Kerski submitted a batch of improvements, including tests for the alt text check. One of…
There is a particular feeling that can come with being invited into a collaboration. You are excited. You are grateful. Someone has opened a door and given you an opportunity that you might not have had on your own. So…
I’ve just published my latest Power BI project: DataTides.SixSigma, a DAX UDF library for Six Sigma and statistical process control. It contains functions for things like DPMO (Defects Per Million Opportunities), Sigma Level, Cp/Cpk (Process Capability), Pp/Ppk (Process Performance), control…
After publishing my WCAG Colour Contrast Ratio Checker in Power BI, there was still one thing sitting at the back of my mind: APCA. I first came across it back in 2024, when I properly threw myself into colour accessibility.…
I recently submitted the DataTides.SixSigma package to Dax Lib. And then discovered I had managed to forget several of the conventions I’d already used in other packages. TABLEREF, not TABLE. The exact annotation format. Fully qualified function names. I got…
