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…
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…
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.…
Most conversations about accessibility begin with disability. That is understandable. Accessibility standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were developed to remove barriers for people with disabilities, and that remains their primary purpose. However, accessibility is not only…
This article started somewhere I wasn’t expecting. And yes… it’s a long one! But bear with me, it’s worth the journey. I started with a simple question about a few unusual spikes in some data, and somehow ended up building…
AI is rapidly changing the way we build Power BI reports. What began with asking ChatGPT or Copilot to write a DAX measure or explain an error has evolved into something far more powerful. Today, AI can suggest report layouts,…
One of the latest accessibility checks I’ve added to PBIX A11y looks at something many Power BI developers rarely think about: the size of interactive elements. Things like buttons, slicers, navigation items and clickable icons. At first glance, this might…
When I began building PBIX A11y, I expected the difficult part to be the accessibility logic. It turned out the real challenge was something far less glamorous. I was using vibe coding, and Lovable was generating the application for me…
Since I posted my article about minimum font sizes for different Power BI canvas sizes, I have been thinking about all the other UI elements on the screen. Surely they would behave similarly to font sizes? If font sizes need…
