{"id":11685,"date":"2017-03-01T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/?p=11685"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:15:50","slug":"announcing-highcharts-highcharts-cloud-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/news\/announcing-highcharts-highcharts-cloud-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Highcharts and Highcharts Cloud Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alert alert-info\" style=\"margin-top:20px;\">Highcharts Cloud is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everviz.com\/\">Everviz<\/a>. If you have used Highcharts Cloud before, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/everviz\/\">here<\/a> to read about what this means to you.<br \/>\nOtherwise, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everviz.com\/\">here<\/a> to try out <strong>Everviz<\/strong>!<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is with great pleasure to announce the release of version 1.1 of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/docs\/chart-concepts\/accessibility\">Accessibility Module<\/a>, available for all users of Highcharts 5.x. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As accessibility is an organization-wide priority at Highsoft, spanning all our products, we are also excited to also announce that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.highcharts.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highcharts Cloud<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, our hosted chart editor for end users, now fully integrates Highcharts\u2019 latest accessibility features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that users of Highcharts Cloud, both free and premium editions, are able to generate and publish screen-reader and keyboard-navigation optimized charts without additional effort. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This release marks the one-year anniversary of presenting the beta version of our Accessibility module together with our design-partner, Elsevier, at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/cod\/conference\/2016\/sessions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CSUN Assistive Technology Conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in San Diego, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We credit much of the insight and inspiration for our accessibility work to Ted Gies, from Elsevier, and the wonderful and helpful subject matter experts we engaged for feedback during our development.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We look forward to seeing you all, as well as other wonderful people and innovators at this year\u2019s conference at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/cod\/conference\/2017\/sessions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CSUN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For examples of charts enabled with our Accessibility module, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/a11y.html\">these demos.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce version 1.1 of our Accessibility Module for Highcharts 5.x and for Highcharts Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"meta_title":"","meta_description":"","hc_selected_options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[789,1094],"coauthors":[712],"class_list":["post-11685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-accessibility","tag-highcharts-core"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29090,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions\/29090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}