Accessibility features help users with physical disabilities,
such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use software products
successfully.
The major accessibility features in this product enable users to
do the following:
- Use assistive technologies, such as screen-reader software and
digital speech synthesizer, to hear what is displayed on the screen.
Consult the product documentation of the assistive technology for
details on using those technologies with this product.
- Operate specific or equivalent features using only the keyboard.
- Magnify what is displayed on the screen.
In addition, the documentation was modified to include the following
features to aid accessibility:
- All documentation is available in HTML formats to give the maximum
opportunity for users to apply screen-reader software technology.
- All images in the documentation are provided with alternative
text so that users with vision impairments can understand the contents
of the images.
This information center has the maximum usability if you use the
following software combination:
- Microsoft® Internet
Explorer 6.0
- Java™ Web Start (JAWS)
Navigating by keyboard
Use the
following key combinations to navigate the information center by keyboard:
- In the Topic pane, to go to the next link, press Tab.
- To expand and collapse a node in the navigation tree, press the
Right and Left Arrows.
- To move to the next topic node, press the Down Arrow.
- To move to the previous topic node, press the Up Arrow.
- To go to the next link, button, or topic node from inside one
of the views, press Tab.
- To scroll all the way up or down in a pane, press Home or End.
- To go back, press Alt+Left Arrow; to go forward, press Alt+Right
Arrow.
- To go to the next pane, press F6.
- To move to the previous pane, press Shift+F6.
- To print the active pane, press Ctrl+P.
- To open the pop-up menu, press Alt+M.
- To move to the previous item on the pop-up menu, press the Up
Arrow.
- To move to the next item on the pop-up menu, press the Down Arrow.
- To select an item on the pop-up menu, move to the item and press
Enter.
- To close the pop-up menu, press Esc.
- To move to the contents view, press Alt+C. (then press Enter if
you are using Microsoft Internet
Explorer)
- To move to the Search Results view, press Alt+R. (then press Enter
if you are using Microsoft Internet
Explorer)
- To move to the Index view, press Alt+I. (then press Enter if you
are using Microsoft Internet
Explorer)
Combinations for JAWS 7
If you are using
JAWS 7, use these keyboard combinations to replace some of the keyboard
combinations listed in Navigating by keyboard.
- To expand a node in the navigation tree, press Alt+O. JAWS says
"Alt O".
- To collapse a node in the navigation tree, press Alt+B. JAWS says
"Alt B".
- To move down to the next topic node in the tree, press Ctrl+Shift+Down
Arrow.
- To move up to the previous topic node in the tree, press Ctrl+Shift+Up
Arrow.
- To scroll all the way up or down in a pane, press PageUp or PageDown.
- To move to the previous item on the pop-up menu, press Ctrl+Shift+Up
Arrow.
- To move to the next item on the pop-up menu, press Ctrl+Shift+Down
Arrow.
- To select an item on the pop-up menu, move to the item and press
Enter.
- To switch among Contents view, Search Results view, Index view
and Bookmarks view, move to Selection of navigation views frame, and
then use the key combinations described in the Navigating by keyboard section.
Combinations for Home Page Reader 3.4
If
you are using Home Page Reader 3.4, use these keyboard combinations
to replace some of the keyboard combinations listed in Navigating by keyboard.
- To expand and collapse a node in the tree structure, press Enter.
- To open the pop-up menu, press Ctrl+L, then press End, then press
Enter.
- To move to the previous item on the pop-up menu, press Shift+Tab.
- To move to the next item on the pop-up menu, press Tab.
- To select an item on the pop-up menu, move to the item and press
Enter.
- To close the pop-up menu, press Alt+Shift+H.
- To switch among Contents view, Search Results view, Index view
and Bookmarks view, move to Selection of navigation views frame, and
then:
- To move to the Contents view, press Alt+Shift+C.
- To move to the Search Results view, press Alt+Shift+R.
- To move to the Index view, press Alt+Shift+I.