Oracle Accessibility Conformance Report

The product does not utilize the following:

• Time-based media.
• CAPTCHA.
• Tests that contain non-textual content.

The product was tested for:

• Non-text content that is presented to the user has a text alternative.
• Controls that accept user input have meaningful labels and describes its purpose.
• Non-text content that is for presentation purposes only is implemented in a way that it can be ignored by an AT.
• Images that convey information have meaningful alternative text using ALT.

The product does not provide prerecorded audio-only or prerecorded video-only content.

The product was tested for:

• Prerecorded video includes closed captions.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• Closed captions are not provided for prerecorded audio content for the demonstration video for Activity Guide Composer.  Bug  27584068.

The Activity Guide Composer feature provides the ability to include a video step in an activity guide.  Customers are responsible for ensuring that any video added meet the criteria.

The product was tested for:

• Prerecorded video includes a full text alternative to the video including any interaction.

The product does not utilize live audio content.

The Activity Guide Composer feature provides the ability to include a video step in an activity guide.  Customers are responsible for ensuring that any video added meet the criteria.

The product was tested for:

• Pre-recorded video includes a second version (or the only version) of the video that has audio descriptions built into it on the main audio track.

Exceptions to the above:

• The Activity Guide Composer demonstration video does not include audio description built into the main audio track. Bug 27581148. 

The product was tested for:

• Column and Row headers on data tables.
• No information is solely conveyed through the style sheet.
• Layout tables use appropriate markup
• User interface component labels are associated with the fields they are labeling
• Headings are encoded with HTML heading tags
• List markup is used for marking up lists
• Data tables specify SUMMARY or CAPTION

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• In Recruiting Solutions Classic Candidate Gateway, questionnaire is presented as a list but is not marked up in the HTML as a list.  Bug 19632823.
• Error messages which contain a list of error conditions or instructions are not marked as lists.  Bug 19705029.

The product was tested to ensure that the sequence in which content is presented is in a logical tab order.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• An issue was discovered in the Classic Timesheet where focus changes unexpectedly when deleting a row.  Bug 28072124.
• An issue was discovered in the My Team where focus changes unexpectedly when a button bar is selected.  Bug 28505921.

The product was tested to ensure that color, shape,  physical location, or any other sensory characteristics are not the only means of conveying content or guidance to the user.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• During testing an issue was discovered in Talent Acquisition Manager where a job category used to categorize jobs uses color and alternative text to differentiate categories, but does not provide shading or different shapes.  Bug 27476321.

The product does not use color or visual presentation as the only means of conveying information to the user.

The product does not utilize audio based media.

The product was tested for:

• Visual presentation of text to ensure that  a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1.  
• Large-scale text and images of large-scale text have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1.
• Images of text are not utilized in the product.

The visual presentation of the product is delivered using a specific PeopleTool's style sheet, "Tangerine" which has been tested to conform to these contrast requirements.   The settings in the delivered style sheet can be overridden by the user, the browser settings, or the operating system.

The product was tested for :

• Text can be resized up to 200% without loss of content or functionality.

The product does not utilize images of text.

The product was tested for:

• Ability to perform functions from the keyboard only, and without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes.
• Proper operation of unique keystrokes and access keys, including those listed in the product documentation.
• The ability to use the product with OS keyboard aids: StickyKeys and FilterKeys (feature names may be different on different platforms.

Movement of focus through each control can be done using only the keyboard, with no "keyboard trap" that prevents focus from moving away from any control.

The product was tested for:

• Time limits in the product can be turned off before they are encountered.
• Time limits in the product can be adjusted to at last 10 times longer than encountered.
• Time limits in the product can be extended with at least 20 seconds warning up to 10 times.
• Time limits are longer than 20 hours.
• Time limits used are part of a real-time event, or a essential activity.

The product does not contain animation and does not utilize auto-updating that starts automatically or auto-updating that is presented in parallel with other content.

The product was tested for:

• No portion of the screen flickers or flashes with a frequency between 2 Hz and 55 Hz.

The product provides HTML headers which enable the user to bypass blocks of content.   Headers are provided for Page Titles, Group Boxes, Scroll Areas, and Grids (Tables)

The product has meaningful page titles specified in the TITLE element.

The product  was tested for:

• Logical tab order through the product controls and selectable elements.
• Consistent use of keyboard keys to perform selection and action.

The product was tested to ensure that the purpose of each link can be understood, its label is meaningful,  and that labels are not vaguely worded.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• An issue was identified in Fluid State Tax Information where the purpose of links cannot be easily determined.  Bug 27061729.

The product provides multiple methods to navigate to a page including:

• Drop down menu.
• Navigation menu ("NavBar").
• Related Actions.
• Links on a page.
• Tiles (buttons) on a homepage.
• Button bars (radio buttons).
• Global search feature to find a page.

The product was tested for:

• Structure and hierarchy conveys meaningful text in header elements on pages.
• Column and Row headers on data tables.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• An issue was identified in Fluid State Tax Information where the purpose of links cannot be easily determined.  Bug 27061729.
• An issue was identified in Fluid Employee Snapshot where the Competencies tile has text content that is not labeled properly. Bug 25897726.
• An issue was identified in Fluid Candidate Gateway where placeholder text is the only means of identifying purpose.  Bug 27762681.
• An issue was identified in the Classic WorkCenter framework where heading labels are duplicated.  Bug 28797894.

The product was tested for:

• Visual cues or feedback to the position of the cursor within the product.
• AT product successfully tracks cursor focus.
• Visual indication of the location of the focus.

The product was tested for:

• Properly set lang attribute for each page.

The product was tested for:

• Proper use of lang attribute for text passages that are in a different language than that of the page.

When an element receives focus, it does not result in a substantial change to the page, an additional change of keyboard focus, or the spawning of a pop-up window.

Changes in the value of user interface components does not result in a substantial change to the page, an additional change of keyboard focus, or the spawning of a pop-up window.

The product was tested for consistent navigation and order across pages.

The product has been tested for:

• Images and controls are used and identified consistently throughout the product.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• UI for administrative functions versus self service is inherently different since the frequency of use varies.  Administrators are trained users whereas self service users are typically infrequent and untrained users.  As such,  the UI for self service functions is different and much simpler than  the UI administrator web pages which results in an inconsistency of the UI across these functions of the product.
• UI for different product families (e.g.  payroll versus recruiting) have some differences in terminology.  The application is tailored for a particular set of business processes, concepts, and roles which in some cases do not span across product families which results in an inconsistency of the UI.
• UI for Classic versus Fluid transactions is different since Fluid transactions are a replacement for the legacy Classic transactions.

When input errors are detected, they are described to the user in text, including the identification of the item where the error occurred.

The product was tested for meaningful labels, instructions where applicable, and ALT text.

The product provides messages for input when input errors are automatically detected.   The error messages contain information indicating what the error is and instructions on how to correct the error when known.

The product was tested to ensure that when legal commitments or financial transactions occur that modify or delete user-controllable data that one or more of the following is true:

• Data that is entered by the user is validated for input errors and the user is provided an opportunity to correct the errors before submission.
• Confirmation pages are available for reviewing, confirming, and correcting input before finalizing the submission of data.
• Submissions are reversible or can be re-entered by the user.

The product was tested for:

• Elements in the HTML have complete start and end tags, are properly nested, do not contain duplicate attributes, and have unique IDs.
• Pages validate to the HTML specification.

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The product was tested for:

• HTML controls have a programmatically associated name, derived from the appropriate HTML elements and attributes including LABEL, TITLE, SUMMARY, CAPTION, etc.
• Additional state information is programmatically exposed for HTML controls, such as whether a field is ‘required’.
• Custom controls have appropriate roles specified using the ROLE attribute.
• Custom controls have appropriate state and property information conveyed using the relevant WAI-ARIA or HTML5 attributes.
• Frames have a meaningful title specified in the TITLE attribute.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• An issue was discovered in Fluid Direct Deposit where the filter button does not indicate the button state. Bug 27664491.

The product was tested for:

• User controls for the selection of captions are provided at the same menu level as the user controls for volume or program selection.

Exceptions to the above are as follows:

• Caption Controls are not provided for a demonstration video in Activity Guide Composer.  Bug  27488962.

The product was tested for:

• User controls for the selection of audio description are provided at the same menu level as the user controls for volume or program selection.

See WCAG 2.0 Section.

The product does not include authoring tools that provide format conversions or saving content in multiple formats.

The product does not provide export of PDF files.

The product does not prompt authors to create accessible content.   Bug 27488962.

The product does not provide templates.

The product documentation describes:

• Screen Reader mode user preferences and runtime.
• Special keystrokes needed to operate controls.
• Workarounds.

Accessibility-related documentation can be found in the Enterprise PeopleTools 8.56 PeopleBook: PeopleSoft Accessibility Guide which describes screen reader mode and common accessibility related issues and how to prevent them when authoring content.

Product documentation is in electronic format.