Accessibility Features

Accessibility Features

This section contains the following topics:

Product Enhancements

Set Up Accessibility for User

Keyboard Shortcuts

Product Enhancements

CA Technologies is committed to ensuring all customers can successfully use its products and supporting documentation to accomplish business tasks. Enable the accessibility mode to optimize contrast in the user interface and assist a screen reader for those users who need assistance.

CA Clarity PPM accessibility features are best when used with the Mozilla Firefox 13 browser and the Job Access With Speech (JAWS) screen reader.

CA Clarity PPM inherits accessibility enhancements from Windows-based and Macintosh-based environments in the following areas:

• Display
• Sound
• Keyboard
• Mouse

Note: The information in the following topics applies to Windows-based and Macintosh-based applications. Java applications run on many host operating systems, some of which already have assistive technologies available to them. For these existing assistive technologies to provide access to programs written in JPL, they need a bridge between themselves in their native environments and the Java Accessibility support that is available from within the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM). This bridge has one end in the Java VM and the other on the native operating systems, so it will be slightly different for each platform it bridges to. Oracle is currently developing both the JPL and the Win32 sides of this bridge.

Display

To increase visibility on your computer display, you can adjust the following options:

Font style, color, and size of items

Lets you choose font color, size, and other visual combinations.

Screen resolution

Lets you change the pixel count to enlarge objects on the screen.

Cursor width and blink rate

Lets you make the cursor easier to find or minimize its blinking.

Icon size

Lets you make icons larger for visibility or smaller for increased screen space.

High contrast schemes

Lets you select color combinations that are easier to see.

Sound

Use sound as a visual alternative or to make computer sounds easier to hear or distinguish by adjusting the following options:

Volume

Lets you turn the computer sound up or down.

Text-to-Speech

Lets you hear command options and text read aloud.

Warnings

Lets you display visual warnings.

Notices

Gives you aural or visual cues when accessibility features are enabled or disabled.

Schemes

Lets you associate computer sounds with specific system events.

Captions

Lets you display captions for speech and sounds.

Keyboard

You can make the following keyboard adjustments:

Repeat Rate

Lets you set how quickly a character repeats when a key is pressed.

Tones

Lets you hear tones when pressing certain keys.

Sticky Keys

Lets those who type with one hand or finger choose alternative keyboard layouts.

Mouse

You can use the following options to make your mouse faster and easier to use:

Click Speed

Lets you choose how fast to click the mouse button to make a selection.

Click Lock

Lets you highlight or drag without holding down the mouse button.

Reverse Action

Lets you reverse the functions controlled by the left and right mouse keys.

Blink Rate

Lets you choose how fast the cursor blinks or if it blinks at all.

Pointer Options

Let you do the following:

• Hide the pointer while typing
• Show the location of the pointer
• Set the speed that the pointer moves on the screen
• Choose the pointer's size and color for increased visibility
• Move the pointer to a default location in a dialog box

Set Up Accessibility for User

Use these steps to set up accessibility for a user.

Follow these steps:

1. Open Administration, and from Organization and Access, click Resources.
2. Click the name of the resource.

   The properties page appears.

3. Select the appropriate Accessibility check boxes:

   Screen Reader Optimized UI

   Determines whether the user interface is optimized so that a screen reader can better recognize the features. Select this check box for any visually impaired user who is using a screen reader.

   Default: Cleared

   High Contrast Color Mode

   Determines whether a specific UI theme to assist color-deficient users is used. If selected, the user sees the High Contrast UI theme.

   Default: Cleared

4. Save your changes.
5. (Optional) If you selected the Screen Reader Optimized UI, verify that the screen reader software is running on the user's computer.
6. If the user is logged in to CA Clarity PPM, instruct the user to log out and log back in.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts for Basic Features

The following table shows the keyboard shortcuts for basic features available on all CA Clarity PPM pages.

Keyboard Shortcuts for CA Clarity PPM Actions

The following table shows keyboard shortcuts for actions on CA Clarity PPM pages.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Lists

The following table shows the keyboard shortcuts for lists.