Accessibility features help users with physical disabilities,
such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use software products
successfully.
The accessibility features in the product enable users to:
- Use assistive technologies, such as screen reader software and
digital speech synthesizers, to hear what is displayed on the screen.
Consult the product documentation of the assistive technology for
details on using the technology with this product.
- Perform tasks with the software using only the keyboard.
General Navigation
Each page has four main
sections:
- Headerbar
- Toolbar
- Main tabs
- Content
Each page has navigation points for screen readers. The following
navigation points are all H1:
- Title bar
- Main tabs
- Main form
- Section labels
- Table labels
Menu Navigation
You use the Go To menu at
the top of the screen to navigate to any of the applications that
you have access to. The Go To menu is a cascading menu that is three
levels deep at its deepest point. The following instructions describe
how to get started with JAWS:
- To get to the Go To menu press Alt+G.
- When you open the menu, JAWS reads the first application in the
menu. If JAWS does not begin to read the entry, restart the screen
reader.
- Navigate the list of applications in the menus by using the arrow
keys.
- JAWS indicates if a menu item has submenus. To get to a submenu,
press the right arrow or enter.
- Press the left arrow to move up a level in the hierarchy. If you
press the left arrow at the highest level of the Go To menu, you leave
the menu completely.
- Press the Enter key to enter an application.
Accessibility help
The Accessibility Help
panels provide details on general navigation, menu navigation, and
hot keys. Click Accessibility Help from the
toolbar of the product to access the help panels.
Screen reader setting
The product contains
a screen reader flag. When you turn on the screen reader flag, the
user interface is optimized to work with JAWS for Windows®. You use
the User tab in the Users application to turn
on the screen reader flag.
Keyboard shortcuts
You can navigate within
the applications by using a combination of keys.
Accessible reports
To use the accessibility
tools to read reports, you must access the reports in Microsoft Excel. In the reports applications,
select the Run Reports option in the Select
Action menu. With this option, you can email an .xls file
version of a report to yourself at a scheduled time.
IBM and accessibility
For
more information about the commitment that IBM® has to accessibility, see the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center. The IBM Human Ability and Accessibility
Center is at the following web address: http://www.ibm.com/able