9 Accessibility Support

Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel supports the use of assistive technologies to read status information, such as progress bar messages, without receiving keyboard focus. To enable this functionality, you need to modify Excel's configuration.

To enable this accessibility functionality, you'll need to create an excel.exe.config file in the same folder as the Excel executable (excel.exe).

Note:

If the Excel executable is installed in a location that requires elevated permissions—for example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16—get an administrator to create the file.

The excel.exe.config file should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <runtime>
        <AppContextSwitchOverrides value="Switch.UseLegacyAccessibilityFeatures=false;Switch.UseLegacyAccessibilityFeatures.2=false;Switch.UseLegacyAccessibilityFeatures.3=false;Switch.UseLegacyAccessibilityFeatures.4=false;Switch.UseLegacyAccessibilityFeatures.5=false" />
    </runtime>
</configuration>

WARNING:

Creating or changing the contents of the excel.exe.config file could have unintended consequences on the operation of Excel and other installed add-ins.