Accessibility features

IBM® Cognos® Administration and Cognos Connection have accessibility features that help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products.

The availability of accessibility features can vary however, if other pages and components that do not support accessibility are added to the Cognos Administration user interface.

For more information about the commitment that IBM has to accessibility, see the IBM Accessibility Center (http://www.ibm.com/able).

The following features support accessibility in Cognos Connection:

• To listen to what is displayed on the screen, people with limited vision can use screen-reader software, along with a digital speech synthesizer. Cognos Connection uses Web Accessibility Initiative-Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA).
• To navigate in the software and to issue commands by using only a keyboard, you can use standard Microsoft Windows keyboard shortcuts. There are no unique keyboard shortcuts.
• To bypass links in headers and menus and to go directly to the main content of the page, JAWS users can select the Skip to main link in the list of links window. Keyboard users see the Skip to main option if they navigate to it.
• Administrators can specify system-wide settings for accessible report output that apply to all entries. For more information, see the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Administration and Security User Guide.
• Accessible output can also be set for individual reports, jobs, steps within jobs, and scheduled entries in PDF, HTML, and Microsoft Excel 2007 software formats.