Accessibility

Oracle JET components have built-in accessibility support that conforms with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 at the AA level (WCAG 2.0 AA), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Accessibility involves making your application usable for persons with disabilities such as low vision or blindness, deafness, or other physical limitations. This means, for example, creating applications that can be:

• Used without a mouse (keyboard only).

• Used with assistive technologies such as screen readers and screen magnifiers.

• Used without reliance on sound, color, animation, or timing.

DDS provides the ability to support the above accessibility in the applications.

Users should be able to navigate to all parts and functions of the application using the Tab and arrow keys, without using any keyboard shortcuts. In addition to that, keyboard shortcuts merely provide an additional way to access a function quickly.

Keyboard shortcuts provide an alternative to pointing devices for navigating the page. There are five types of keyboard shortcuts that can be provided in OJET applications:

• Tab traversal, using Tab and Shift+Tab keys: Moves the focus through UI elements on a screen.

• Accelerator keys (hot keys): bypasses menu and page navigation, and performs an action directly, for example, Ctrl+C for Copy.

• Access keys: Moves the focus to a specific UI element, for example, Alt+F for the File menu.

• Default cursor/focus placement: Puts the initial focus on a component so that keyboard users can start interacting with the page without excessive navigation.

• Enter key: Triggers an action when the cursor is in certain fields or when the focus is on a link or button.