Enabling Accessibility for Smart View

2 Enabling Accessibility for Smart View

Review this topic to familiarize yourself working with JAWS® for Oracle Smart View for Office .

Using Microsoft Office Themes (Including Dark Theme)

About Enabling Accessibility for Smart View

You do not need to enable accessibility specifically for Smart View; it is always in accessible mode. Smart View output is in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and PowerPoint slides, which are accessible through Microsoft Office. For information about Excel, Word, or PowerPoint accessibility, refer to Microsoft Office product documentation.

Working with JAWS

If you are using JAWS® Screen Reading Software:

Oracle recommends using the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser.
You must enable JAWS to read ListView headers, as described in Enabling JAWS to Read ListView Headers.
In Excel, when a dialog is launched directly from a button on an add-in ribbon (such as the Smart View ribbon or the Planning Ad Hoc ribbon), JAWS reads the location and content of the selected cell before reading the dialog content. An example of this is when launching the Options dialog box from the Smart View ribbon. The selected cell’s location and content is read before the Options dialog content. When a dialog is launched using a drop-down menu on a ribbon button, the dialog content is read directly (and not the selected cell’s location or content). An example of this is the Build Function command in Functions drop-down menu on the Smart View ribbon. After selecting the Build Function command, the content of the Select Function dialog is immediately read.

Enabling JAWS to Read ListView Headers

ListViews display information in a table format within the Smart View user interface. Examples of dialog boxes that display information in the ListView format are Select Forms or Manage Journals.

ListView headers are the column headings within a ListView. By default, JAWS does not read the ListView headers; however, you can enable JAWS to read them.

To enable JAWS to read ListView headers:

Ensure that JAWS is running.
Within a ListView, select a row containing data, then press Insert+F2.
In the Run JAWS Manager dialog box, select Customize ListView and press Enter.

The Customize Headers dialog box is displayed
In the Column Headers group, select the Speak Custom Text AND Header option.
Click OK to save the changes.

JAWS should begin speaking the column headers in the ListView element. If this doesn't happen, restart the Office application.

Using Microsoft Office Themes (Including Dark Theme)

Starting in release 23.100, Smart View supports the themes provided by Microsoft Office. In addition to the default Colorful theme, you can now apply the Dark Gray, Black, and White themes while working in Smart View.

Note:

Black theme is available only with a Microsoft Office 365 subscription.
Office themes are supported in Smart View and in its extensions from Microsoft Office 2016 onwards. Office themes are not supported on Office 2013.

Once applied, the background color and font color changes are seen for interface elements such as ribbons, Smart View panels and its menus, POV toolbar, formula bar, sheet tabs, and dialog boxes such as Comments, Adjust, Business Rules, Smart View Options, Narrative Reporting Extension, EPM Books Extension, and so on.

To enable Office themes:

In your Office application, click File and then click Options.
In the General tab, under Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office section, select the required theme from the Office Themes list.

Note:
If you have enabled any system-level dark themes, then you can apply the same in your Office application by selecting the Use system setting option and use Smart View in a dark theme.
Click OK.

Note the following considerations while using themes:

While switching between themes, the new theme gets applied immediately to all interface elements, except the Smart View panels and POV dialogs of active ad hoc and form sheets. You need to restart the Office application to apply the theme to the panels and POV dialogs on already opened Smart View files.
List view and tree view always retain the white background, irrespective of the theme applied.
Black theme cannot be fully applied to toolbars and menus in panels and dialog boxes. Instead, these appears with a gray background.
If high contrast is enabled at system level, then the Office theme is ignored.