Accessibility features help a user who has a physical disability,
such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use software products
successfully.
The
IBM® Lotus Web Content Management authoring
portlet supports the following accessibility features:
- Screen-reader software and a digital speech synthesizer:
- You can use these tools to hear what is displayed on the screen.
- Native browser accessibility features:
- The accessibility features of supported browsers (large fonts,
high contrast colors) are supported in the authoring portlet.
Writing accessible Web content
The Web Content Management application does
not check whether content written in Web Content Management is accessible.
You will need to test your Web site to ensure the content is accessible.
Viewing error, warning, and information messages using
JAWS
When using JAWS you can check for error, warning and
information messages after executing an action. To do this:
- Click Ctrl+Home.
- Click 'b' to hear "Click to perform a search button".
- Click 'b' again to hear "Close+Alt+Shift+c button".
- Click shift+g to hear what type of message is displayed.
- Click the down arrow to hear the error, message, or information
message.
Note: If these steps do not find a message, then search for a
graphic that is titled "error", "information" or "warning" and then
click the down arrow to hear the error, information, or warning message.
Using JAWS with rich text fields
JAWS users
need to install the Java Access Bridge to be able to read the content
of rich text fields. Otherwise the JAWS reader only identifies rich
text fields as a RTE frame and not read the content of the rich text
field.