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feat(a11y): add data table for screen readers (sunburst, treemap, icicle, flame) #1155

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This PR creates a dynamic data table for partition type charts to present the data for screen reader users. There is an added row for percentages to provide more context to users of assisted technologies. In addition, the data table will provide more information on multilayer pie charts or small multiple partition charts. The partition data table for screen users can be seen when setting debug to true.

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Fixes #1154

  • Need to fix <td> for icicle/flame charts or properly disable it in this PR
  • Need to add tests for this functionality
  • Limit the number of results for a data table OR render the top N results vs limiting the data 🤔

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  • Unit tests were updated or added to match the most common scenarios

@rshen91 rshen91 added :partition Partition/PieChart/Donut/Sunburst/Treemap chart related :accessibility Accessibility related issue labels May 10, 2021
@rshen91 rshen91 changed the title feat(a11y): add data table for screen readers (sunbursts) feat(a11y): add data table for screen readers (sunburst and treemap) May 14, 2021
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Very important and nice work Rachel, thanks 🎉

I added a bunch of comments which are mostly just minor improvements on preexisting code you retained; I don't think those changes impact logic. Each is a small suggestion around one function, but together add up to much shorter logic.

As a next step, eg. next week is good too, it'd be great to hop on a short call for jointly test driving it with VO. Also, could we include Michail Yasonik in the review?

(specs, { legendMaxDepth }, trees) => {
const lengthOfResults = getScreenReaderDataForPartitions(specs, legendMaxDepth, trees).length;
// how to control how much is calculated
return lengthOfResults > 20
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Wondering if 20 is good hardcoded, @markov00 might want to chime in. Also, even if it's too many, maybe the top N values could be kept, to not disadvantage the user with the loss of all items. Also, what's the harm in just doing it unconditionally for all sectors? Hopefully the VO user can "back out", ie. doesn't need to resort to hearing all the 0.1% slices before continuing with the rest of the page contents

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Should we really limit that, or is the user that can directly skip the content after the first top N values?

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Yeah I think the data table definitely impacts rendering performance when loading flame/icicle charts (particularly in terms of #1155 (comment)), so I wondering about implementing some sort of escape hatch if results are in the 1000s. This 20 is just arbitrary for now but I am definitely open to suggestions. 🙇🏻‍♀️

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I think only rendering the top N in a data table sounds interesting! I wouldn't mind trying to implement that.

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@myasonik do you have suggestions for larger datasets? I see the top N being kind fo cool and just having somewhere (maybe the table caption?) say the amount of results there were?

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@myasonik in line with Rachel's question, it would be interesting to know if there's a good practice for handling the current tradeoffs between accessibility annotations (DOM with ARIA labels etc.) and other goals, as I'm not currently aware of an API that would detect if a screen reader is used. The other goals include, bounded rendering time, responding page, economy of power and CPU utilization, economy with browser memory. Unfortunately the resource usage of DOM rendering is roughly 100x larger than that of DOM rendering.

Rachel I'm also thinking that maybe, reaching a cap, a "slice row" for "Other" could be created, with a single, longer text description for screen reading. While that can still be a long string, it'd establish a bounded DOM element count. DOM and general webpage performance worsens with every DOM element, even if those DOM elements do nothing.

Rachel, another important thing to do is to ensure that the table and row creation do not cause undue layout work for the browser. Depending on a few factors, table rendering speed can vary wildly. The rule of thumb is that if the columns are of fixed width, then the layouting is quite fast, but if the column widths are driven by the table contents, which I believe is the default, then it becomes a much heavier task. Let's chat about this when we look at the PR together.

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Was just going back through this PR and thought I'd document the outcome of this (we 3 chatted on zoom): In short, we're only rendering some subset of data at first (until a user interacts with a "load all" button) so there shouldn't be consequential impact to performance.

@rshen91 rshen91 requested a review from monfera May 19, 2021 19:39
@rshen91 rshen91 changed the title feat(a11y): add data table for screen readers (sunburst and treemap) feat(a11y): add data table for screen readers (sunburst, treemap, icicle, flame) May 19, 2021
@rshen91 rshen91 requested a review from myasonik May 20, 2021 16:00
@rshen91 rshen91 marked this pull request as ready for review May 24, 2021 20:57
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LGTM, great work here.
I'd like to see reuse of the table/components on other charts as well whenever possible

@rshen91 rshen91 merged commit 87fd75f into elastic:master Jun 10, 2021
nickofthyme pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 10, 2021
# [30.2.0](v30.1.0...v30.2.0) (2021-06-10)

### Features

* **a11y:** add data table for screen readers (sunburst,  treemap, icicle, flame) ([#1155](#1155)) ([87fd75f](87fd75f)), closes [#1154](#1154)
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🎉 This PR is included in version 30.2.0 🎉

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@rshen91 rshen91 deleted the sunburst-a11y-slices branch July 28, 2021 15:07
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# [30.2.0](elastic/elastic-charts@v30.1.0...v30.2.0) (2021-06-10)

### Features

* **a11y:** add data table for screen readers (sunburst,  treemap, icicle, flame) ([opensearch-project#1155](elastic/elastic-charts#1155)) ([a1a68fe](elastic/elastic-charts@a1a68fe)), closes [opensearch-project#1154](elastic/elastic-charts#1154)
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