About Keyboard Navigation in Accessible Rich Internet Applications

The Siebel Open UI client supports Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). ARIA define a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible for people with disabilities and easier to use for all users. ARIA especially help in navigating within dynamic content and in using advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

ARIA include a collection of common, semantic landmarks that apply to each navigable region in a Siebel application. These landmarks allow a person with disabilities to use an assistive-technology product, such a screen reader, to navigate in a Siebel application. Landmarks provide a consistent navigation experience in which a pointing device, such as a mouse, is unnecessary.

Examples of landmarks include: the application-level menu, the application toolbar, screen names, view names, lists, visibility filters, and forms. If you use a JAWS screen reader, you can press CTRL + INSERT+; (semicolon) to display a dialog box that describes the landmarks. For more information about using the keyboard to navigate in Oracle's Siebel Business Applications, see "About Keyboard Navigation".

For information about ARIA, visit the Web Accessibility Initiative Web site at:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/