The system provides accessibility options for you, to make working on the Desktop easier and more accommodating for all our users. It offers the following accessibility options:

Focus indicator
Tooltips
Keyboard navigation and shortcut keys
Support for screen readers

Enabling Focus Indicator on Desktop

In order to enable the focus indicator on the Desktop, you will have to enable it from the Desktop Launcher. Click the button next to the Login dialog to enable accessibility for your Desktop. Bear in mind that enabling accessibility will only affect your desktop client, other users using their own desktop client will have to enable accessibility on their own Desktop Launcher.

Note!

Only the focus indicator is enabled by the button. All other accessibility options are already available by default on your Desktop.

Clicking on the button shows the Accessibility Highlight confirmation dialog. Clicking Yes enables the accessibility options on your Desktop.

Accessibility Highlight dialog box for enabling accessibility.

A Desktop Launcher with 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

A focus indicator has now been added to the Desktop to make the accessibility focus area visible to 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.
Use the Arrow keys to navigate between options in drop-down menus or between cells in a table.

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

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

Tooltips

Tooltips 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.

Tooltip when highlighting the Configuration button.

Keyboard Navigation and Shortcut Keys

Using the Desktop you can navigate throughout the client using keyboards and shortcut keys. Information on what keys to use will appear from the tooltips when highlighting a button or menu item.

The shortcut keys will also be listed in the drop-down menus:

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

As well as the right click menus:

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

For navigating between the objects and elements, use the following keys:

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You can also find a comprehensive list of all shortcut keys in the system 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.

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2. Configuration

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