Accessibility

The products and IBM® Knowledge Center provide a number of features that make them more accessible for people with disabilities.

Keyboard navigation

You can use the keyboard to navigate through the administration console without using a mouse. Use the following table to determine the keys to use. The keys that you use affect the item that currently has focus; focus is indicated by the dotted line that surrounds an item.
Area Function
Navigation tree
  • Press the Up Arrow, Down Arrow, Left Arrow, and Right Arrow keys to navigate the tree.
  • Press the Right Arrow to expand a collapsed item in the tree.
  • Press the Left Arrow to collapse an expanded item in the tree.
General Press Escape to close any open interface, such as a message box or a wizard.
Wizards
  • Press Alt+Down Arrow to minimize an open wizard.
  • Press Alt+Up Arrow to restore a minimized wizard.
Tabs
  • Press CTRL+W to close an open tab, except for the domain tab and its tabs.
  • Press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow to move between open tabs in the main interface.
Tooltips
  • From the associated field, press Ctrl+F1. If the field is not enabled, use the Tab key to move to the tooltip icon and press Enter.
  • To hide a tooltip, press Escape.
Pop-up menus Press Shift+F10 (or the Menu key or Application key if available) to display the pop-up menu for the item that currently has focus.

Keyboard navigation when using JAWS

Intended result Comment
Activating the default action On a user interface where you can press Enter to activate the default action after pressing Enter to make a selection, JAWS causes the second Enter to be ignored. To activate the default action, you must tab to the button corresponding to the default action and then press Enter. For example, when you add a document, you can select a document class. After tabbing to the class you want, press Enter to select the class. When not using JAWS, you can press Enter again to activate the OK button and accept your selection. When using JAWS, you must first tab to the OK button before you press Enter again.
Displaying the menu On a client running Microsoft Windows Vista with JAWS V11 enabled, you must use the Shift key in addition to the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to display the items in a menu list.

Font size

To use the Internet Explorer menu option to change the text size, you must first set Internet Explorer to ignore the font sizes that are specified by the application.