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Accessibility Highlight dialog box for enabling accessibility.

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A Desktop Launcher with the Accessibility enabled. The focus indicator is highlighting the enable accessibility button.

Clicking on the button while the accessibility options are enabled, will prompt another Accessibility Highlight confirmation dialog to disable the accessibility options.

Focus Indicator

The A focus indicator helps to highlight the area or the element that you will be interacting withhas now been added to the Desktop to make the accessibility focus area visible for you. The highlighted object or element will indicate that you have selected it and you can then interact with it using keyboard shortcuts or directional keys.

To navigate with the focus indicator, the following keys will apply:

• Use the Tab key to focus on the next element.
• Use the Shift + Tab keys to focus on the previous element.
• Use the Ctrl + Tab keys to escape from a table or object that contains nested objects or elements.
• Use the Ctrl + Shift + Tab keys to escape from a table or object that contains nested objects or elements in reverse.

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Focus indicator over the Workflow Properties button. Pressing the space bar with this button highlighted will open the Workflow Properties dialog.

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Focus indicator is seen in the combo box element, allowing you to interact with the combo box to select from its options.

Tool tips

Tool tips are added to certain selected objects to provide more context help. Tool tips will appear when the focus indicator highlights the element or when you mouse over an element.

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Tool tip when highlighting the Configuration button.

Keyboard Navigation and Shortcut Keys

Desktop allows you to navigate throughout the desktop client using keyboards and shortcut keys. Information of what keys to use will appear from the tool tips when highlighting a button or menu item.

The shortcut keys will also be listed in the drop down menu's:

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The File drop down menu with the shortcut keys listed on the right of the menu.

As well as the right click menu's:

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The right click drop down menu in the Ultra or APL code with the shortcut keys listed on the right of the menu.

You can also find a comprehensive list of all shortcut keys in on the Keyboard Shortcuts page.

Support for Screen Readers

Screen readers such as NonVisual Desktop Access will be able to read the text and tooltips of the focus indicator highlighted object or element.