PeopleTools 8.54 Accessibility Improvements
This table describes accessibility improvements for release 8.54 by product area:
Product Area |
Improvement |
PeopleBook Cross-References for More Information |
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PIA Core Technology |
Page elements coded to standards for WCAG 2.0. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide, “Using Page Controls” |
PeopleSoft Application Designer |
Group boxes - For group boxes that are used only for visual layout purposes, a new option is available in Application Designer in the Group Box Properties – Label tab, to suppress the group box label in accessibility mode. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide, “Using Page Controls”. |
PeopleSoft Application Designer |
Grids – In Application Designer in the Grid Properties – Use tab, the following new grid layout types are available:
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PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide, “Using Scroll Areas, Scroll Bars, and Grids.” |
PeopleSoft Application Designer |
Grids – In Application Designer, a new Row Header option enables you to select a grid column to use as the row header in accessibility mode. The dialog box for setting the Row Header option differs depending on the grid type:
If a row header is not specified, then the row header generated is the row number plus the first display-only edit field. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide, “Using Scroll Areas, Scroll Bars, and Grids.” |
PIA Core Technology |
Added landmarks to identify page sections per WAI-ARIA specifications. These landmarks provide a method to programmatically identify commonly found sections of web page content in a consistent way, which enables assistive technologies to provide users with features they can use to identify and navigate to sections of page content. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide, “Using Page Controls”. |
Global Search |
Provided enhanced keyboard support and added landmarks to list selections for accessibility mode. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Search Technology |
Charting |
Provided the Chart Options page to specify system-wide accessibility settings by chart type. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleCode API Reference, “Charting Classes,” Special Considerations for Charts. |
Portal |
Provided enhanced keyboard support for page tabs, search page tabs, and grids tabs, per WAI-ARIA specifications. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application User's Guide, “Working with Grids and Scroll Areas”. |
MultiChannel Framework |
Enhanced HTML elements that are hidden or uncovered visually, to behave similarly in accessibility mode. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft MultiChannel Framework |
PIA Trees |
Provided keyboard support for trees. Added landmarks, properties, and states for accessibility mode. |
PeopleTools 8.54: PeopleSoft Application User's Guide, “Using PeopleSoft Application Pages” |
Activity Guides |
Provided support for action item status changes and dependent link information pop-ups in accessibility mode. |
PeopleTools 8.54: Portal Technology, “Developing and Deploying Activity Guides”. |
Portal Technology: WorkCenters |
Provided enhanced keyboard support. Added landmarks, properties, and states for accessibility mode. |
PeopleTools 8.54: Portal Technology, “Creating and Configuring WorkCenter Pages ”. |
Portal Technology: Related Content Framework |
Provided enhanced keyboard support. Added landmarks, properties, and states for accessibility mode. Added header markup for pagelet labels. |
PeopleTools 8.54: Portal Technology, “Developing and Configuring Related Content Services” |
Portal Technology: Pagelet Wizard |
Added landmarks to layout table nodes in default Navigation Collection-based pagelet XSLs Changed the step icon hover text on the Pagelet Wizard component to "step n - xxxx" format. |
PeopleTools 8.54: Portal Technology, “Using Pagelet Wizard to Create and Manage Pagelets” |