Understanding PeopleSoft Online Help Accessibility

The PeopleSoft Online Help is coded to standards for accessibility. For example, you can access all features of the online help by using only the keyboard, and the site is coded to standards to work with assistive technology, such as a screen reader.

Review Navigating the PeopleSoft Online Help for information about how the site is structured and how to navigate between pages.

In addition, the following recommendations improve the accessibility of specific features in the PeopleSoft Online Help.

Page Tabs

Some navigation pages contain multiple page tabs that you use to change the content that appears on the page. The tabs are set up as a tab list. You can use the following commands to navigate through the tabs using the keyboard:

Key	Action
Tab and Shift+Tab	When the cursor is before or after the tab list, move to the active tab in the tab list. The first tab is active by default when you access a page, but if you select a different tab, that tab remains active as long as you stay on the page.
Right Arrow and Left Arrow	Move between tabs in the tab list. If the cursor isn’t currently in the tab list, press Tab or Shift+Tab until you reach the active tab in the tab list. Then use the arrow keys to move between tabs. If you press the Right Arrow at the end of the tab list, focus moves to the first tab in the list, and vice versa.
Enter	Displays the content of the tab that is currently in focus. When you move between the tabs, tab content does not actually change until you press Enter.
Home	When the focus is in the tab list, this moves to the first tab.
End	When the focus is in the tab list, this moves to the last tab.

Expandable and Collapsible Tree Views

Navigation pages include expandable and collapsible tree views that contain links to the help content. To ensure that you can access all content within these tree views, select the Expand All Sections check box in the Display Options portlet on any navigation page. See Using Portlets for more information about the Display Options portlet.

In addition, you can use the following commands to navigate through the tree views using the keyboard:

Key	Action
Up Arrow and Down Arrow	Move between all visible nodes. If a node is collapsed, this moves to the next visible mode (not to the contents of the collapsed node).
Left Arrow	If the node is expanded, this collapses the node. If the node is collapsed, this moves to the parent node (if one exists).
Right Arrow	If the node is collapsed, this expands the node. If the node is expanded, this moves to the first child node, after which point you switch to the Down Arrow to move through the remaining child nodes.
Enter	If the node contains a link to a subject navigation page or a help page, this opens that page.
Any letter key	Moves to the first visible node with a title beginning with that letter.
Home	Moves to the top node in the tree view.
End	Moves to the last visible node in the tree view.

Expandable and Collapsible Portlets

Each portlet on the left side of the page has a maximize/minimize button in the title bar. The button label toggles between “Maximize” and “Minimize” to indicate the state of the portlet.

Press the Tab key to access the portlet buttons using the keyboard, and press the Enter key to press the button.

Skip to Main Content Links

At the beginning of any page, click the Skip to Main Content link to skip past the universal navigation header and portlets to the main content. Click the Return to Navigation link to move the cursor back to the beginning of the page.

Note: These links are not visible on the pages, but they can be read by assistive devices and you can access them through the keyboard using the Tab key.

Business Process Maps (BPMs)

For PeopleSoft Applications product lines that provide BPM diagrams in the online help, you can click the Switch to Text-Only BPMslink to access text-only versions of the BPM diagrams.

See Using Text-Only BPM Pages.

User Interface Formatting

Your help administrator can modify the delivered style sheets to change the colors and formatting of text on pages to meet specific accessibility needs. See Modifying Online Help Style Sheets.

Accessibility of PeopleSoft Applications

For information about the accessibility of PeopleSoft Applications, see PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Accessibility Guide.