Accessibility

Accessibility refers to the possibility for everyone, including and especially people with disabilities, to access and use information and communication technology. ​

ActiveControl Web Platform is built using UI5 and SAP Fiori design system; Accessibility is an integral part of both of those.​ ActiveControl offers various capabilities to ensure Accessibility for Basis Technologies customers and all end-users.

Figure: Accessibility capabilities within ActiveControl.

The rest of this section summarises some of these Accessibility capabilities in turn.

Themes

Different themes can be used to view the Web Platform by individual end users. Please refer to Themes section for full details of what is available, and how to change your local Theme.

*Themes can also be useful for users within the organisation that need to access multiple ActiveControl Domain Controllers (eg in a Dual Domain Controller or Airgap scenario, or indeed where you need to test something in a non-Production ActiveControl Domain Controller. By setting different themes against each system, it will become more obvious to you on which system you are currently accessing, and hopefully reduce any risk of human error.

Responsiveness

ActiveControl comes with a responsive layout that adapts to the display resolution parameters of the individual device.​ Most core AC capabilities can be accessed on both PC and Mobile devices.​

Support for Text Resizing ​

ActiveControl Web Platform can be accessed via all internet browsers supported by SAP​:

• Google Chrome​
• Microsoft Edge (Chromium)​
• Mozilla Firefox​
• Apple Safari​

Users can adjust the font size themselves using inbuilt internet browser zoom function. ​ The responsive layout adapts to these manual adjustments automatically.​

*For a user with scrolling wheel mouse, scrolling with the CTRL key held down will typically perform the zoom function in most browsers.

Tab Order for Support​

Navigation between fields on a screen in the Web Platform is done using the Tab key. ​ [Tab] moves the focus from one control to the next. ​ [Shift]+ [Tab] does the reverse.​ Tab Ordering is possible on all screens of the Web Platform where a User may be maintaining information​:

• Business Task​
• Transport Form​
• Project​
  

Understanding

Clear status updates, messages and error handling is seen throughout the Web Platform​. Labels and tooltips are used in the Web Platform to provide more information where appropriate.​

Figure: Example messages within ActiveControl.

!As with all aspects of the product, Basis Technologies welcome customer feedback on the existing accessibility capabilities of ActiveControl. Please reach out to our Support team or Customer Success Team if you have comments or suggestions on how we can improve the accessibility of ActiveControl for your user community.