Accessibility is the extent to which products, systems, and so on can be used by people with a wide range of disabilities. Specifically, accessibility is the ability of products to support the needs of users with visual impairments—including blindness, partial sight (low vision), and color blindness—and motor impairments that prevent them from using a mouse or a standard keyboard.
Crystal Ball supports accessibility at all times through keyboard shortcuts and other means mentioned in Enabling Accessibility for Crystal Ball. Crystal Ball users who require additional support can activate Accessibility mode with the following features:
When defining new forecast charts, the certainty grabber and certainty level marker lines are displayed by default.
Series or other distinctions in forecast, overlay, trend, and sensitivity charts have different patterns, not just different colors. Filtered data in scatter charts has a pattern.
Accessible text is provided in blank charts to indicate whether data is available or why it is not.
The Compare Run Modes chart now plots one series with a pattern.
Microsoft Excel charts are included in reports by default and values of the chart series are written out to the report spreadsheet.
The cell preference Add comment to cell is active and comments are added to new assumption, decision variable, and forecast cells defined in new workbooks. For additional information, see A Note About Accessible Default Cell Preferences.
The default size of assumption charts in reports is changed from 50% to 100%.
To ensure consistent progress readings, the simulation progress bar is hidden in the Crystal Ball control panel when an OptQuest optimization is running.
Constants to support the new Accessibility mode preference are added to the Crystal Ball Developer Kit for calls that set or return run preference settings.