Currently there is no indication that the data table is sortable or how it’s sorted.
Generally, interactive elements should change the cursor to the pointer icon (like in the legend) or continue to use the default icon (the table currently uses the text icon). Additionally a tooltip could be helpful. Beyond this, sortable tables generally display a sort direction arrow in the column being sorted (up for ascending, down for descending)
Note: Keyboard cannot be used to sort the data table (would be helpful for accessibility).
Thank you. Yes, if it is a column that has text, it sorts it alphabetically. If it is a column that contains numbers, it sorts it from highest to lowest and vice versa. Ideally though, there would be some sort of indication (for example with the arrows) that these columns are sortable.
Is there any way to disable the ‘Allow table sorting’ as default for our charts? A great many of our charts are time series, where the values being in chronological order are quite important and we don’t want viewers to be able to switch them. I’d just update the themes to untick this option but it looks like ‘Allow table sorting’ has been ticked retrospectively for our older Everviz charts too, which displays oddly as a broken image (see image)
I see that arrows and the cursor have been added to the tables. This is great news! However, I think there is something wrong with the image that is on the everviz server, Fred (UX dept) mentioned that you may need to reference it differently.
This is what the table looks like in the Everviz tool.
The up/down arrows are now showing properly. But when you click on them, they have a white background. Is there a way to remove this?
Also, the up/down arrows only seem to show in the tables of the first figure on the page. They aren’t appearing in any of the ones that follow. You can see on or page here.
In addition, it has been brought to my attention that unfortunately, the table is not sortable using a keyboard. Is it possible to fix this for accessibility?
