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Using Screen Readers

The accessibility features in Siebel Business Applications allow screen reader programs (such as, Freedom Scientific JAWS or Window-Eyes from GW Micro, Inc.) to read fields, articulate messages and alerts, provide query results, and describe the options in drop-down lists in Oracle's Siebel Business Applications.

If the user wants to read the contents of fields in the application, the user can press the arrow keys to navigate from field to field. Then, the screen reader provides an audible description of the field's contents. If the user wants to read and edit the contents of a form's fields, the tab key is used for navigation, because screen readers support edits in tab mode. The screen reader provides an audible message when a blank or read-only data field is encountered.

A message window also appears after each page refresh. When a message occurs, the focus of the application changes to the message, and the message is automatically read by the screen reader. When the user acknowledges the message by pressing ENTER, the application's focus returns to the last active screen or view.