Oracle® Fusion Middleware

Keyboard Access

All functions of the WebLogic Server Administration Console are accessible and usable from the keyboard. The application supports the standard keyboard controls found in Web browsers and does not interfere with the operating system standard keyboard controls.

Customizable Appearance

The WebLogic Server Administration Console supports your ability to define and use custom style sheets. This allows you to control the manner in which the application appears in the browser. You can use your own custom style sheets or simply revert the page to default formatting using the appropriate browser commands.

Keyboard Accessibility

Keyboard accessibility is limited in the following ways:

1. The Administration Console uses two kinds of tree controls, which use different keyboard navigation.

   • The diagnostics Monitoring Dashboard and the diagnostics Request Performance page use tree controls with enhanced keyboard navigation using the arrow keys.

   • Other tree controls are navigated using the Tab and Enter keys.

2. Some editable property values in the outbound connection pool of an installed RAR application are not keyboard accessible. However, JAWS users can access these fields by using table navigation keys.

Screen Reader

The screen reader's effectiveness is limited in the following ways:

1. The diagnostics Monitoring Dashboard is not fully accessible by the screen reader.

2. A number of buttons in the Administration Console behave as menus, for example the Suspend and Shutdown buttons on the Summary of Servers > Control page. When pressed, these buttons open a list of commands. JAWS recognizes the buttons only as buttons; it cannot read the commands on the menus.

3. The screen reader skips some images or reads them incorrectly:

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     The reader does not always read the "Restart maybe required" image, which is placed next to configuration options that may require restarting the server.

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     The reader announces the Record button, in the toolbar region at the top of the right pane of the Console, as "start recording" even when its status has changed to "stop recording."

   • The reader does not read some images representing file types.

4. The reader sometimes does not read the message "Errors must be corrected before proceeding" that is displayed at the top of a page when a user tries to save invalid entries. However, the reader does correctly read the specific error message returned at the point of the error.

5. The screen reader does not announce that script recording has begun when a user initiates the recording by clicking the Record button.

6. The screen reader sometimes unexpectantly jumps to the top of the page, for example:

   • When the user continues tabbing through the controls in the chooser control list after reading several items.

   • When the user clicks on a tree view item in the Help viewer.

7. Unexpected information is read by the screen reader for Asynchronous tasks' Begin Time and End Time on the Summary of Asynchronous Tasks page.

Running with High Contrast and Text Magnification

Running the Administration Console while using high contrast or text magnification can lead to the following problems in some browsers:

1. When using the Microsoft Windows High Contrast mode, some images and navigation controls are not displayed or are distorted.

2. When running with text magnification some text may be overlapped or difficult to read.