Accessibility Mode

Changing to Accessibility Mode

Accessibility mode in Oracle BI EE makes the rendering of the user interface more compatible with screen readers while allowing only that functionality that is supported for users with disabilities to be visible. The following list provides information on accessibility mode:

  • The "BI Composer wizard" is displayed in place of the "Analysis editor." For more information on BI Composer, see Chapter 14, "Using BI Composer to Work with Analyses."

  • The Home page does not contain links for accessing the Administration page or for performing most editing functions, such as for editing dashboards.

  • Graphs and map views are not displayed but are instead converted to one or more annotated tables.

  • Tables and pivot tables are rendered with appropriate internal annotations to enable screen readers to describe the contents of cells.

    Refer to your assistive-technology documentation for all applicable table navigation shortcuts.

  • You cannot use the mouse to modify the layout of a table or pivot table.

  • Performance tiles, and treemaps are rendered as pivot tables.

  • The collapse icon is included in the upper-left corner of each section on a dashboard page, even if that section is marked as not collapsible in the Dashboard builder. This allows the icon to be the first element that receives focus when using the keyboard to navigate on a dashboard page.

  • The Page Options toolbar button on a dashboard page, which displays a menu of page options, is not available.

  • If the dashboard page is refreshed, even if you navigate to another page, then the location of the focus is not preserved. You must press Tab to navigate through the focusable items.

  • Trellis views, when displayed on dashboards, are converted to pivot table views with the following changes:

    • Attribute columns of the inner graph are not included in the pivot table views.

    • Measure values are aggregated to the new grain of the pivot table views.

By default, Oracle BI EE does not use accessibility mode.