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…
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…
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…
What if you could audit the accessibility of a Power BI report without even opening Power BI Desktop? The latest episode of PBIX A11Y Bytes is now live, and it walks through PBIR A11Y, a free, open-source command-line tool that…
I’ve watched the Perseids from some pretty different places over the years. Offshore Angola, when I was working as a navigator. North Wales in 2024, when the Perseids happened to share the sky with the northern lights. This year, though,…
As a STEM Ambassador, data professional, and Trustee of Technology Books for Children, I am passionate about helping young people discover the opportunities that technology can create. Having built a career in data and technology, I have seen first-hand how…
Many of you may not know yet, but I started my career in Physical Oceanography, specialising in ocean data analysis and circulation numerical model validation using MATLAB. Then I moved to be a Navigator, and funnily enough, physical oceanography and…
I’ve just pushed two updates to PBIR A11y CLI: a license change, and a new release that fixes a real detection bug and adds two features people had been asking for. Starting with the license. PBIR A11y CLI was originally…
