Cross-Filtering

A dashboard interaction technique where applying a filter in one component (such as selecting a category in a chart or using a dropdown widget) automatically updates the data displayed in other related components throughout the dashboard. Cross-filtering enables users to explore data subsets across multiple views simultaneously. For accessibility, cross-filtering poses challenges because the interaction may be implicit (triggered by clicking chart elements rather than using explicit form controls), the resulting data changes span multiple components, and screen reader users need textual summaries of how the filtered data differs from the previous state to track what has changed.