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 Data Source 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.