December is a huge month for us in terms of accessibility. With this release, the entire product supports screen readers, keyboard navigation and high contrast for both report consumption and report creation. We are also previewing one of the most asked for features related to Q&A, support for live connect! We also have lots of smaller improvements across the product, such as customizable tooltips for buttons and a larger DAX formula bar.
Here’s the complete list of December updates:
Reporting
Smart guides for aligning objects on a page
ArcGIS Maps for Power BI updates
Fields list accessibility support
Set tab order for objects on a page
Tooltips for button visuals
Updated icons for “Visual interactions”
Analytics
Live connect support for Q&A (preview)
Modeling
DAX formula bar updates
Data view accessibility support
Custom visuals
BIpm: Interactive directed flow graph
Data connectivity
AtScale connector (Beta)
Oracle Essbase connector (Beta)
Data preparation
Fuzzy merge – support for Top N best matches
Other
High contrast support for all panes and report footer
Updated keyboard shortcuts dialog
For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video:
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