Setting Up PeopleSoft Accessibility Features

You can set the default value for the Accessibility Features personalization through the PeopleTools personalizations options. You control who sees and has access to the Accessibility Features personalization through permission lists. This chapter discusses how to:

Click to jump to parent topicSetting the Default Value for the Accessibility Features Personalization

When you install PeopleTools, accessibility features to support assistive technology are turned off, by default, and users who want to use the accessibility features must enable them in My Personalizations. You can change the default value of the Accessibility Features personalization if you want to make the accessibility features visible to all users by default. For example, if the majority of your users require accessibility features, you might make these features available to everyone by default so that individual users do not have to enable them.

Note. Keyboard-only navigation features are available to all users and do not require users to enable accessibility features.

To change the default value of the Accessibility Features personalization:

  1. Select PeopleTools, Personalization, Personalization Options to access the Define Personalizations page.

  2. Enter PPTL on the search page and click Search to open the PeopleTools personalization options.

    The Accessibility Features (ACCESS) personalization should appear at or near the top of the list.

  3. Select the Format tab.

    The current default value appears in the Option Default Value column.

  4. To change the default value, click the Set Option Default Value link.

  5. Select one of the following values:

    Accessibility features off

    Select this option to disable accessibility features, by default. Users who want to use the accessibility features must manually enable them in My Personalizations.

    Use accessible layout mode

    Select this option to enable all of the accessibility features that are available, by default. Users who do not want to use the accessibility features must manually disable them in My Personalizations.

    See Accessibility in PeopleSoft Applications.

    This option is designed for blind users who use assistive technology, such as screen readers.

    Use standard layout mode

    Select this option to enable accessibility features for users who need support for visibility impairment, such as those using screen magnifiers, but who do not rely solely on screen readers.

    This mode provides bold highlighting of page elements to indicate where you are on a page, but it does not alter the page layout or provide full accessibility features for screen readers. For example, this mode does not provide table summaries and column headings for every table column.

  6. Click OK to apply the change and return to the Define Personalizations page.

  7. Click Save.

See Also

PeopleTools 8.52: Security Administration, “Managing PeopleSoft Personalizations,” Working with Personalization Options

Click to jump to parent topicProviding Access to the Accessibility Features Personalization in Permission Lists

Before users can enable PeopleSoft accessibility features in My Personalizations, you must give them permission to modify the Accessibility Features personalization. To set up personalization permissions:

  1. Select PeopleTools, Security, Permissions and Roles, Permission Lists to access the Permission Lists component.

  2. Add or select a new permission list.

    See PeopleTools 8.52: Security Administration, “Setting Up Permission Lists.”

  3. Select the Personalizations tab to access the personalization permissions.

  4. Enter the following information:

    Option Category Level

    Select Tools.

    Option Category Group

    Select PS Internet Architecture.

  5. Click the Edit Options link to open the Personalization Permissions page.

  6. Select the Allow User Option check box next to the Accessibility Features (ACCESS) user option.

    If this check box is not selected, users cannot enable the accessibility features in My Personalizations.

  7. Click OK to apply the change and return to the Personalizations page.

  8. Click Save.

Click to jump to parent topicSetting Inactivity Timeout Intervals

This section explains how to set up PeopleTools security to help satisfy the following Section 508 standard:

1194.22(p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required.

PeopleTools security enables you to specify the timeout intervals for users who are signed in to the PeopleSoft system. A timeout interval specifies how long the user’s machine can remain idle—no keystrokes, no SQL—before the PeopleSoft system automatically signs the user out of the application. You assign the timeout intervals to permission lists using PeopleTools Security. The default value is to never time out.

If you do set a timeout interval, users who approach the timeout interval receive a message that enables them to extend the timeout interval or allow the timeout to occur.

To change the timeout interval:

  1. Select PeopleTools, Security, Permissions and Roles, Permission Lists.

    Select the General tab.

  2. Select one of the following timeout options:

    Never Time-Out

    Select this option to eliminate a timeout interval. This value is the default.

    Specific Time-out (minutes)

    Select this option to assign a timeout interval and enter the appropriate value in minutes. The value:

    • Must be a positive integer.

    • Cannot contain edit characters, such as commas or a $.

    • Must be a SMALLINT in the valid range allowed for this field (0–32767).

    Entering a value of zero is equivalent to selecting Never Time-Out.

    Note. If you generally provide users with shorter timeout intervals, such as 20 minutes, you might want to create a special accessibility permission list with a longer timeout interval, such as 60 minutes.

    Note. Because timeout intervals are also controlled at the web server level, you need to change the web server timeout values.

Important! Other timeout intervals that are unrelated to security are controlled by your web server and by PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture components.

See Also

PeopleTools 8.52: System and Server Administration, “Appendix: PeopleSoft Timeout Settings”