There is an SVG option that looks identical but it doesn't say when you're supposed to use that, or why canvas exists (and is the default) if SVG would work equally well. Then again, setting an example chart to use SVG rendering (I was looking at the basic scatter plot functionality, since I use that most often), I can't seem to tab or otherwise navigate through the data points, so it may just be impossible to get the data read out to you like "first data point, year 2006 students 25 939" (if the axes were labeled "year" and "students", for example; they're not labeled in the example but it could still read out the positions of the points)