9.3 Using SunPlex Manager Accessibility Features

SunPlex Manager supports third-party accessibility software when run through an accessible browser, such as Internet Explorer 5. This section describes some of these accessibility features.

• By default, the SunPlex Manager menu frame uses a JavaScript-enabled menu. Selecting an image or link in the menu frame expands or collapses any sub-items in the menu tree. Selecting an item in the menu frame also updates any information that is displayed in the content frame, that is related to the selected item.

  In addition to the Java-enabled menu, SunPlex Manager also provides a basic text-based menu that is always expanded and may interact better with accessibility software. To use that menu, start SunPlex Manager with the URL https://nodename:3000/cgi-bin/index.pl?menu=basic where nodename is replaced with the appropriate name of a node on which SunPlex Manager is installed. SunPlex Manager displays the text-based menu in the menu frame.

• SunPlex Manager uses combo box action menus to update and access a number of cluster components. When using keyboard control, select action menu items by opening the combo box pull-down menu before moving to the desired menu item. If you use the down arrow to move through the action menu items within the combo box, each menu item you move to is automatically selected and updated by using JavaScript. This could result in updating the wrong menu item.

  The following example shows how to access a combo box pull-down menu and select an item from that menu. The example assumes you are using keyboard commands with the Internet Explorer 5 browser.

      1.  Tab to the desired combo box action menu.

      2.  Press Alt-Down Arrow to display the pull-down menu.

      3.  Press the down arrow key to move the cursor to the desired menu item.

      4.  Press Return to select the menu item.

• SunPlex Manager provides several graphical topological views through Java applets. This information is also available in tabular status tables, since the Java applets may not be accessible.