Accessibility overview

EPF Composer is based on Eclipse and therefore offers several accessibility features that are part of the Eclipse development platform.

Those features are summarized as below:
Note: Accessibility features mentioned in this document apply to the Windows® operating system.

Keyboard Navigation

EPF Composer uses standard Microsoft Windows navigation keys. A list of common keyboard shortcuts is shown below:
  • To traverse to the next link, button, or topic, press Tab inside a frame page.
  • To go to the next link, button or topic node from inside a frame or page, press Tab.
  • To expand and collapse a tree node, press the Right and Left arrows.
  • To move to the next topic node, press the Down arrow or Tab.
  • To move to the previous topic node, press the Up arrow or Shift+Tab.
  • To scroll all the way up or down, press Home or End.
  • To go back, press Alt+Left arrow; to go forward press Alt+Right arrow.
  • To go to the next frame, press Ctrl+Tab.
  • To move to previous frame, press Shift+Ctrl+Tab.
  • To print the current page or active frame, press Ctrl+P.

For a complete list of standard keyboard shortcuts in Windows, see the Keyboard Assistance information from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/keyboard.aspx

All of main menu commands in EPF Composer have keyboard shortcuts. A list of these shortcuts can be displayed by using the Help menu and selecting Key Assist, or by using the shortcut Ctrl+shift+L.

To invoke the context menu while using the process editor, press Shift+F10. This menu allows you to open or create diagrams.

To invoke the context menu while using the diagram editor, press Shift+F10. This menu allows you to create diagram objects such as activities, task descriptors, and so on.

To move objects around, press the CTRL+Right or the CTRL+Left arrow keys.

Accessibility of Published Configurations

All content in the method library is accessible. Published configurations based on this content will also be accessible with some exceptions noted below. All diagrams and icons have HTML "ALT" attributes, which means they have text-based descriptions that can be recognized and spoken by text-to-speach converters, including speach-enabled web browsers. Obviously there is less information contained in the textual descriptions than in the diagrams, however a reasonable effort has been made to accommodate visually-impared users.

All data tables have row and column titles compatible with speach-enabled web browsers. Tables that are merely used to align page elements (layout tables) do not use row or column headers.

New method content created or imported into EPF Composer may not have the required HTML tags to be compatible with speach-enabled browsers. Authors of new content should use the HTML editing mode in the Rich Text Editor to manually insert appropriate ALT attributes next to "IMG SRC" tags.