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alish_b
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3 months ago
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Keyboard-Only and Code-First Workflows for Report Authoring?

I'm working on making Power BI accessible for screen reader users. TMDL should cover the modeling side well (measures, relationships, sorts), but report authoring is still very mouse-driven and I'm h...
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    Anonymous
    3 months ago

    Hi alish_b   ,
    Thank you for reaching out to Fabric Community Forum.

    Microsoft Power BI provides documented accessibility features for report authoring, including keyboard navigation and keyboard shortcuts in Power BI Desktop.

    Power BI Desktop supports keyboard navigation across different areas of the application, including report canvas objects, page tabs, panes, and other UI regions. Microsoft also documents keyboard navigation support for areas such as the Visualizations pane and Fields well.

    Power BI Desktop also provides keyboard shortcuts for common actions, including navigating between sections, selecting objects, entering visuals, and moving or resizing visuals while editing.

    For code-based development, Microsoft documents Power BI Projects (PBIP) and the enhanced report format (PBIR). PBIP stores report and semantic model definitions as files, and PBIR stores report artifacts such as pages, visuals, and bookmarks in separate report definition files.

    For semantic model development, Microsoft documents Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL), which provides a text-based way to define and manage semantic model metadata such as tables, columns, measures, relationships, and other model objects.

    Documentation:

    Accessibility in Power BI Desktop

    Keyboard shortcuts in Power BI Desktop

    Power BI Projects (PBIP)

    Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR)

    Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL)

     

    Thank you.