Enable amcharts-accessibility-plugin

Sorry for the wrong formatting in the previous post. I really love amcharts, and really appreciate having this plugin in WP.

Making charts accessible is becoming more and more important for people with special needs, and for people trying to create accessible information like me. I would really really love any help on how to incorporate this accessibility plugin.

Thanks again. Look forward to hearing from you.

Shukae

The there,

No worries about the link. Please note that the accessibility plugin is made by excellent PayPal team, not amCharts team and therefore is not maintained or supported by amCharts team.

That being said, it should be fairly easily to incorporate it into your WP install:

1) Download the plugin from their github page:

https://github.com/paypal/amcharts-accessibility-plugin/blob/master/plugins/amstock-accessibility.js

2) Put it somewhere on your web server.

3) Add it at the end of the Resources block when creating a chart.

A few things to note.

I haven’t used or even tested the plugin myself. It looks like it is geared towards Stock Chart product and might not work properly with other chart types.

Also, it was created using quite old version of the charting library as a base. It might also not work with the most recent one.

I suggest trying it out. If there are specific issues, or it does not work, you can take it up with the authors. I believe they have their contact details up on the GitHub page.

I hope this works for you.

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. I tried but it doesn’t work, though I am not sure if what I did was wright.

I basically upload the js file as a media in one of my posts and copied the url and pasted it in the resource block as “https://reportcard.cuuats.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/amstock-accessibility.js”. Am I doing this right? If so, then the chart was not made accessible.

I also contacted the authors and hopefully they will get back to me.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks again.

Shuake

I’m not sure what else to suggest. As I mentioned, I’ve never tried th eplugin myself.

Let’s see what authors have to say.