Considerations

For EPM Workspace, the screen reader reads menu items after opening a new EPM Workspace page. When pressing Esc to exit the main menu, you must press Esc one more time after the menu closes to remove the focus from the menu bar.

When importing Interactive Reporting (BQY) documents or jobs using the keyboard only, the Apply Option to All Queries dropdown should be operated as follows:

Keyboard navigation has been enabled by default in both the screen reader and non-screen reader modes for Oracle's Hyperion® Interactive Reporting documents in EPM Workspace. You can disable keyboard navigation when the screen reader setting is not active. To disable keyboard navigation, add the parameter: DISABLE_KEYBOARD_NAV_IN_NON_508_MODE=true to the Hyperion Interactive Reporting Service (BI) in Dynamic Service properties. For more information, see Chapter 4, Using the Administer Module of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace, Reporting and Analysis Framework User's Guide.

Accelerators for Next or Cancel buttons in dialogs containing I-Frames may need to be issued twice. For example, from the EPM Workspace Import dialog when focus is inside the dialog I-Frame, the accelerators for Next and Cancel buttons, Alt+X or Alt+L need to be issued 2 times. Pressing these keys for the first time removes you from the I-Frame and then the second time is when the accelerator is enabled.

When entering an EPM Workspace Page, the screen reader may not read the layout area title, location, or keyboard shortcuts that are supported. For information on accessibility for EPM Workspace Pages, see Accessibility for EPM Workspace Pages in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace, Reporting and Analysis Framework User's Guide.

The optional Workspace Messaging administrative feature for broadcast notification of users may not get focus in Web browsers. Administrators of systems with users requiring accessibility should notify these users of other options for system messages such as using email.

In some circumstances, screen readers may not initially read all the text in the Import dialogs (Import File, Import File as Job, Import Financial Reporting Documents, and Import URL). In order to read all the text in the Import dialogs, without closing the Import Dialog, use tab to traverse the dialog again; from the second time onwards, the screen reader reads the controls and text.

The EPM Workspace Pages Quick Links and EPM Workspace Pages layout areas correctly read all individual content items as they receive focus. However, the grouping descriptions may not be read by accessibility tools. For reference, the Quick links are grouped in order as Favorites and then Applications. Similarly for the EPM Workspace Pages layout area, the grouping is in order of My Workspace Pages and then Shared Workspace Pages.

Using a screen reader and Internet Explorer, if Forms Mode is on when focus is in a form, and you tab out of or manually move the cursor from the form controls, the screen reader reading commands such as Say All may not work as expected. If you want to manually move focus from a form, toggle Forms Mode off before doing so. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts for moving to the various frames; when EPM Workspace is in screen reader mode, those keyboard shortcuts script a blur event when focus is in a form, which disables Forms Mode before moving focus. For example, to move focus from the Search frame to the Help topic frame, press Ctrl+4 instead of pressing Shift+Tab.

For systems which were upgraded from version 11.1.x, users who had selected the high-contrast theme in the previous version do not see the correct theme the first time they log on to the new version. The correct theme takes effect on their second log on.

When using the F10 global navigation shortcut key to move focus to the first menu in the menu bar, in some Web browsers if the current focus is inside a combo box list, it may not work properly. Once the user moves focus out of the combo box, F10 works correctly.

List of users, groups, or roles is unexpectedly scrolled up when selecting items using arrow keys. To avoid this, input more restrictive criterion in search field so that only one page of items is displayed.

While using Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition or Home Page, global shortcut keys (for example, Ctrl+T to get to the toolbar) may not work until Ctrl+Shift+F6 is pressed.

Top level EPM Workspace menus can be accessed using the Alt key and the letter associated with that menu. Once the menu is opened, the Alt key is not necessary and should not be used to access menu items included in the menu currently open. Only press the letter associated with the submenu item desired. For example, Alt+F opens the File menu, N is all that is needed to select the New menu item under File menu.

When in the Oracle's Hyperion® Shared Services Console and browsing through the user list, the arrow keys are not enabled. This occurs after tabbing through the User Filter and In Group(s) controls to reach the user list. Once in the user list, the arrow keys can be re-enabled by pressing Tab then Shift+Tab.

Once the EPM Workspace menus are open, you can navigate through the menu items using the arrow keys. This is announced by accessibility tools when menus are opened. However, there may be instances when this navigation hint is read only after the user begins navigating inside the menu.

Components that are in a disabled state are not focusable and not read.

EPM Workspace uses the ARIA attribute role=application. This is done in one place when opening EPM Workspace. This may reduce the need to manually specify in accessibility tools settings that indicate EPM Workspace behaves more like an application rather than a Web document.

After selecting an item from the Home Page Recently opened links area, the newly opened document may not get focus. In order for an accessibility tool to read this, it may also be necessary to set focus by using one of the EPM Workspace global navigation short cuts. For example, Ctrl+Y to focus the main content area.

Screen readers may not read the EPM Workspace Favorites dialog title Favorites Manager Dialog when it is opened. However, focus is then available for the first favorite in the list which should be read.

List box controls may not render properly when Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace, Fusion Edition is used in accessibility mode and the display is scrolled. Internet Explorer 7 generally does not have these scrolling issues, although in some circumstances older video cards or drivers may display them. In addition, some list boxes may render as dropdown controls when in accessibility mode.

In some circumstances, the screen reader may read more information than required, such as the image URLs.

Advanced element info (tooltips) for Dashboards, Charts, and Reports not recognized by Screen Reader when using Ctrl+Alt+Enter. (Note: Screen Reader recognizes Dashboards, Charts and Reports when simply Tabbing through them).