This topic introduces the roles and responsibilities of IBM® teams in accessibility
testing of IBM Eclipse
Help System.
IBM Eclipse
Help System (IEHS) is the presentation format for online documentation. Thus, IBM teams
that deliver documentation with IEHS can respond to the IBM Documentation
Accessibility Checklist Checkpoint #1.
The IBM teams
are providing their documentation in the accessible format, if the XHTML files
and other content put into IEHS are also accessible.
The roles and responsibilities in accessibility testing are outlined in
the following table.
Table 1. Accessibility testing roles and responsibilitiesIBM Eclipse Help System Team |
Information Development Team |
IBM Product Team using IBM Eclipse Help System |
IBM Eclipse Help System Team is responsible for the following
items:- Ensuring that IEHS is tested according to the Web Accessibility Checklist.
- Ensuring the generic How to use... documentation is tested according
to the Documentation Accessibility Checklist.
- Filling the Web Accessibility Checklist and Documentation Accessibility
Checklist in the IBM AC Product Accessibility Database.
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Information Development Team is responsible for the
following items: - Filling out the Documentation Accessibility Checklist for their product.
- In the Comment field for Checkpoint 1, stating that IEHS is used as the
presentation vehicle, and providing the file formats of the content files
that are being delivered within IEHS.
- Ensuring that all the product documentation files supplied in IEHS are
accessible to their customers according to the appropriate checklist. Common
documentation file formats that the ID team supplies in the Help System are
XHTML and PDF.
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IBM Product Team is responsible for the following items: - When filing their product in the IBM AC Product Accessibility Database, they
need to indicate, in the Bundling Information section of their product document,
that their product bundles IEHS reusable components, so as to ensure all the
checklists are connected to your product in the IBM AC Product Accessibility Database.
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IBM Information
Development (ID) Teams and IBM Product Teams do not need to test IEHS user
interface for accessibility.
ID Teams need to be able to accurately respond to Checkpoint #1 of the
Documentation Accessibility Checklist. To do this, they can take the following
items into consideration:
- Ensure that the content files that they supply in IEHS are accessible.
- Ensure they are using IEHS to deliver their online documentation.
- Note what file formats they are supplying in the help system in the Comments
field for Checkpoint #1.
You can find the information about how to get access to the IBM AC Product
Accessibility Database at the IBM Accessibility Center (http://w3.ibm.com/able).