What's changed: Created PL-300 Chapter 4 (domain: Visualize and analyze, part 2 = enhance and analyze): usability and storytelling (bookmarks, custom tooltips, edit interactions, sync slicers, selection pane, drillthrough, navigation, mobile), accessibility and personalization (alt text/tab order/contrast, Personalize visuals, automatic page refresh), and identifying patterns and trends (Analyze feature, binning/clustering, key influencers/decomposition tree, reference lines/forecasting, anomaly detection).
4.2Accessibility and personalization
Understand accessibility design (alt text/tab order/contrast), report personalization, and automatic page refresh.
A good report is usable by everyone. Design for accessibility and per-user flexibility.
4.2.1Accessibility design
Accessible reports need alt text (screen-reader descriptions), a logical tab order (keyboard navigation), and sufficient contrast with color-vision-friendly palettes (do not rely on color alone). This lets assistive-technology users understand the content.
4.2.2Personalization and auto refresh
Enabling Personalize visuals lets viewers change a visual’s type/fields for themselves (without altering the original report), boosting self-service. Automatic page refresh auto-refreshes a page at an interval or on events for real-time monitoring (requires a supported source like DirectQuery). These serve different purposes—do not confuse them.
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