SAS Job Execution Web Application: Accessibility Features

• Overview
• Recommended Configuration
• Limited Vision
  • Selecting the High Contrast Theme
  • Accessibility Settings for Limited Vision
• Without Vision
  • Description of User Interface
  • Accessibility Settings to Optimize Screen Reader Usage
  • Disabling the JAWS Virtual PC Cursor
• Mobility
  • Accessibility Settings for Mobility
  • Accessing Product-Specific Landmarks
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Troubleshooting Keyboard Shortcuts
• Hearing
• Contact Us

Overview

SAS is committed to providing accessible software, documentation, training and support materials through the ongoing evolution of our products and internal processes.

SAS adopted the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 level AA as our internal accessibility standard for all software, documentation, training and support materials. We have appointed a Director of Accessibility and established a centralized accessibility team that is charged with implementing the internal accessibility standard. The centralized accessibility team includes accessibility subject matter experts from a variety of disciplines including user experience design, visual design, computer science, quality assurance, and project management. Several members of the team have disabilities. For detailed information about the accessibility of this product, email accessibility@sas.com or contact SAS Technical Support.

Recommended Configuration

This product works with a variety of operating systems, browsers, and screen readers. However, we recommend the following software for a better experience using our product with a screen reader:

• Use Google Chrome as your browser.
• On Microsoft Windows, use the latest version of JAWS.

Limited Vision

Selecting the High Contrast Theme

You can change the appearance of the web applications by using the Theme setting. The theme specifies the collection of colors, graphics, and fonts that appear in the application. We recommend trying the High Contrast theme. This theme uses a dark background with bright foreground colors to achieve high contrast.

To change to the High Contrast theme:

1. Click the user button in the application toolbar to access the application options menu.
2. Click Settings.
3. Navigate to the General page, which is in the Global section.
4. For the Theme option, select Choose a theme.
5. Select the High Contrast theme.

Accessibility Settings for Limited Vision

There are several settings in the Accessibility section that can also be used to improve your experience.

To change these settings:

1. Click the user button in the application toolbar to access the application options menu.
2. Click Settings.
3. Navigate to the Accessibility page, which is in the Global section.
4. Update the settings that you are interested in.

The following settings for limited vision are available from this page:

• To turn off animation, deselect Enable visual effects. Turning off this option suppresses the subtle movement and animation that is used to emphasize changes in state in the interface.
• Select Adjust the display duration for pop-up notifications to specify how long temporary pop-up notification messages are displayed. Increasing the amount of time that notifications are displayed can help users discover and read messages that disappear automatically.
• Select Invert application colors to make the user interface easier to see for users with sensitivity to certain bright colors. You can also use the Ctrl+` (Ctrl+back quote) keyboard shortcut to invert the application colors.
• The focus indicator is an outline that indicates which user interface component is active. You can make the focus indicator easier to see by selecting Customize the focus indicator settings and adjusting the color, thickness, and opacity.

Without Vision

Description of User Interface

The banner contains a user button, which enables you to access application options such as Help Center and themes, user locale, and accessibility settings. Use the navigation bar to navigate to different parts of the application.

You can navigate using landmarks. For more information, see Accessing Product-Specific Landmarks.

For a list of keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard Shortcuts.

Accessibility Settings to Optimize Screen Reader Usage

In the Accessibility section, you can use the Enable sounds option to improve your experience.

1. Click the user button in the application toolbar to access the application options menu.
2. Click Settings.
3. Navigate to the Accessibility page, which is located in the Global section.
4. Select Enable sounds to enable audio indicators for events that occur within the user interface. For example, you hear “tick, tick” for the loading screen.
   Note: Changes take effect after you sign out and sign back in.

Disabling the JAWS Virtual PC Cursor

This product is a Rich Internet Application that contains many highly interactive widgets. JAWS users should press Insert+Z to turn off the JAWS Virtual PC cursor by default. This strategy enables JAWS users to quickly use keyboard shortcuts to move focus around the application window, edit code, complete forms within tasks, and so on. Turning off the JAWS Virtual PC cursor also helps JAWS users avoid potential confusion that can occur when trying to access complex HTML5 widgets.

Mobility

Accessibility Settings for Mobility

There are several settings in the Accessibility section that can also be used to improve your experience.

To change these settings:

1. Click the user button in the application toolbar to access the application options menu.
2. Click Settings.
3. Navigate to the Accessibility page, which is located in the Global section.
4. Update the settings that you are interested in.
   • Select Display tooltips when using the keyboard to navigate to enable keyboard users to access tooltips. When this option is selected, putting keyboard focus on a control also displays the tooltip on the screen. You can also select the location in the browser window to display the tooltip. By default, the tooltip is displayed in the bottom right corner of the browser window.
   • The focus indicator is an outline that indicates which user interface component is active. You can make the focus indicator easier to see by selecting Customize the focus indicator settings and adjusting the color, thickness, and opacity.

Accessing Product-Specific Landmarks

This product provides custom landmarks that you can use to navigate. To access the product-specific landmarks, use Ctrl+F6 in Microsoft Windows and Command+F6 in Mac OS X.

The available landmarks depend on your location in the application. For example, a page in your product might have these landmarks:

• Application Bar moves focus to the banner that runs along the top of the application.
• Search moves focus to the search.
• Main Content Area moves focus to the area where you select and work with items.
• Navigation Area moves focus to the first item in the navigation area of the application.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts are supported in this product.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts	Action
Open a window that lists landmarks.	Ctrl+F6
Open a pop-up menu. For example, when a column heading in a table has focus, pressing Shift+F10 opens the pop-up menu for that column.	Shift+F10

Troubleshooting Keyboard Shortcuts

Your shortcut keys might not work as expected due to the following reasons:

• The keyboard shortcut might be reserved for use by your browser.
• Your keyboard is not a standard U.S. keyboard and therefore some of the keyboard shortcuts are not supported.
• Your web browser is not supported or needs to be upgraded.
• Some shortcut keys might conflict with the shortcut keys of the Input Method Editor (IME). You can modify the IME shortcut.

Hearing

All short-form English language external SAS videos are captioned as part of the standard video publishing process along with select longer-form videos. This includes both technical and marketing videos that are published to the SAS Software and SAS Users channel on YouTube and to SAS web properties. Longer-form videos that are not captioned as part of the standard process can be captioned upon request.

Contact Us

Email us at accessibility@sas.com if you need this document in an alternative digital format. For more information about the accessibility of SAS products, visit www.sas.com/accessibility.