This topic describes the accessibility features in InfoSphere Data Architect.
Accessibility features help people with a physical
disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, or those with special
needs to use software products successfully. The following is a list of the
major accessibility features in InfoSphere Data Architect:
- You can view the objects and hierarchies of a data diagram in the Database
Explorer.
- You can use the Outline view to navigate through the mapping editor, and
find additional information in the Properties view. Some actions are only
available from the mapping editor. Select the mapping in the Outline view,
then go to the mapping editor, and right-click to invoke the menu items.
- Some read-only fields in the Properties view cannot be read by a screen
reader. You can find information about these fields in the Data Source Explorer.
When you highlight an object in the Data Source Explorer, some of the information
in the Properties view for the object is still read-only. Because the information
is read-only, screen readers cannot read it. To work around this issue, you
can copy and paste the object from the Data Source Explorer into a data design
project in the Data Project Explorer, then highlight the object, open the
Properties view, and the screen reader can read all of the fields.
- To draw relationships in a data diagram, select two objects, then tab
to the palette, and select a relationship object. To specify direction, select
the "from" object first, and then select the "to" object.
- To get a screen reader to read object names in a data diagram, select
the object, and press F2 to put the object name into edit mode. The screen
reader reads the object name. Press Esc to get out of edit mode.
- All of the information presented in a data diagram is also available in
the Data Project Explorer, Data Source Explorer, and Properties view.
- The graphical icons have tooltips. Reading the tooltips depends on the
screen reader that you use.