508 / Accessibility for Web Dynpro

[Former Member]

Hi,

Does web dynpro support accessibility / 508 ?

As I have read and heard on teh techEd the web dynpro stack9 will support this, so I can set the property sap-accessibility=x resp. accessibilityDescription="testtext".

Also in the thread "Keyboard access to UI Element"

Posted on: Jul 29, 2004 10:27 PM, by user: Armin Reichert

Accessibility has been addressed and will be supported in the production release.

So I have download the WAS 6.40 as a 90 days test licence. But in the NW Dev. Studio there is no such a attribute for the GUI elements. Do I have to upgrade? But how?

Regards Ralph

[Former Member]

What do you mean with "<i>there is no such a attribute for the GUI elements</i>"?

You can add an URL parameter

sap-accessibility=true

to switch to accessibility mode.

Armin

[Former Member]

Hi Armin,

thanks for the quick reply.

What I mean is, that in the presentation PRTL205 of the TechEd2004, on page 30 there is a screenshot from the NW Dev. Studio where you can see a property 'accessibilityDescription' for a GUI Element. Is property is not in the current NW Dev.Studio which you can download from SDN.

You know, if there is a 'newer' IDE than the one you can download?

Regards

Ralph

[Former Member]

Ah, I see. Yes, there have been some changes on UI element properties like adding an "accessibilityDescription" etc.

Should already be included in newer SP's. Which is your version?

Armin

[Former Member]

I have the IDE downloaded from SDN.

The Help Menue says:

Version: 2.0.4

Build id: 200402161217

If I buy the current WAS 6.40 (with the IDE) is there the accessibilityDesc. included?

Ralph

[Former Member]

Hey Ralph,

You have sp4 which i havent seen since july. You should be able to download the sp9 from sdn now. It should have the accessibility description bc im using nwds sp9 and it has it. Make sure you update your j2ee engine aswell(both with the exact service pack number).

Hope this helps..

-wael

[Former Member]

Hi Armin

Does this mean we can attach key strokes events to web dynpro actions

Regards

Pran

[Former Member]

If a UI element event is triggered by some key (combination), you may bind an action to this event as usual. But there is no new API to map arbitrary key combinations to events.

Accessibility mode means that the application can be used by impaired people e.g. with support from a screen reader etc.

Armin