exploratory Requirement

Data Visualizations

Group: help-and-feedback • Guideline: help-available

Summary in Plain English

An exploratory requirement: help is available for understanding and using data visualisations.

Why It Matters

Charts encode meaning in position, colour and shape at once. Without an explanation or an alternative route to the data, that meaning is unavailable to screen reader users and to many people with cognitive disabilities.

W3C Working Group Status

W3C Maturity Status: exploratory

Track / Group: help-and-feedback

Open Questions Recorded in the Draft

The editors' own notes (:::ednote) in guidelines/groups/help-and-feedback/help-available/data-visualizations.md. These are the questions the group has written down as unresolved — not a summary of discussion written here.

Editors are considering removal of this requirement.

W3C Threads on This Provision

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W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/help-and-feedback/help-available/data-visualizations.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/help-and-feedback/help-available/data-visualizations.md

:::ednote
Editors are considering removal of this requirement.
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Help is available to understand and use data visualizations.