User`s guide

step further, the United States government introduced legislation in the form of Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act, which ensures the right to accessible government web content.
Common to all guidelines is a focus on providing web content that is useful for all people, regardless
of disability or impairment. For reports, accessible design is focused on the same key concepts:
• Content must be easy to understand and navigate.
• Text equivalents or alternatives should be provided for non-text objects.
• Objects should be logically organized to clarify relationships between objects.
• Reports must not rely on any one specific type of hardware, such as a mouse, a keyboard, or a color
screen.
For more information on specific accessibility guidelines, see Resources.
D.1.3 Accessibility and Business Objects products
Business Objects products allow you to design accessible reports and deliver them to your users via
the Web. By observing accessibility guidelines, you can use Crystal Reports to create reports that are
accessible to users with disabilities. You can then publish these reports to the BI platform Server, where
people with disabilities can view them on the Web using the BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
platform web desktop and the DHTML viewers.
The reports in this section were created in Crystal Reports and tested using screen readers (including
JAWS 4.5).
However, Crystal Reports does not currently provide complete accessibility for report designers with
disabilities.
The BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform management components, including the
BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform Central Management Console (CMC) and the Central
Configuration Manager (CCM), do not currently provide access for people with disabilities. The ActiveX
and Java viewers are also not accessible.
In the BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform web desktop, the main user interface for working
with reports through BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform, the ability to log on and view
reports is accessible for most users. However, other areas, such as new account sign up and scheduling,
may not be accessible.
Note:
Although you can use many of the same design guidelines to improve the accessibility of OLAP
Intelligence Professional reports, Worksheets are difficult to format for accessibility. Crystal Reports is
the recommended option for delivering reports to people with disabilities.
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