Icons add a color-independent sales status cue for color-deficient users
Short answer
D Status icons convey sales status by shape, independent of how the colors render.
Question
Key Takeaways
Icons encode status by shape rather than hue, so adding an icon per product's sales status gives color-deficient users a channel that does not depend on distinguishing red from green.
A visual's sales status is currently communicated through colors that color-vision-deficient users cannot reliably distinguish, and the visual must be made more accessible.
Common mistake: Changing one background color for another (red to orange) — that stays inside the color channel and may still collide with the deficiency; the fix is adding a non-color encoding, not picking friendlier colors.
Expert Analysis
Why the Answer Is Correct
Accessibility best practice is to never rely on color as the sole conveyor of meaning. Adding icons that represent each product's sales status (D) layers shape-based encoding on top of the existing colors, so users with color vision deficiency can read the status from the icon shapes regardless of how the colors appear to them.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Changing the Sales column font to white (A) adjusts text contrast for the values but does nothing about the status colors the requirement targets. Changing red to orange (B) swaps one color for another — users with certain deficiencies may still merge the hues, and the encoding remains color-only. Adding more measures to the table values (C) changes the data shown, not how status is communicated, and adds cognitive load rather than accessibility.
Community Comment Notes
A commenter explains that options A and B remain color-based while icons give color-deficient users a reliable comparison channel, endorsing D. The unanimous vote agrees.
Official Reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-accessibility-creating-reports
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Community Votes
100% of anonymous learners picked answer D. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.
Discussion 5 contributions
Compiled from public community threads and reader submissions, lightly edited for clarity. Handles and vote tallies are shown as recorded, and comments reflect the views of individual contributors.
From public community threads 5
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jaume 👍 2"color vision deficiency" so options A and B wouldn't work as it would still be about colouring different values. Icons would support people with color deficiency to get the comparison in the visual
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b92fc92 👍 9D in my opinion
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LuluSkyy 👍 1D is the correct answer
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ak57 👍 1I agree with D
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MANANDAVEY 👍 1 Answered DD is correct.
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