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Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems – Detail
VPAT™
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
®
Criteria
Supporting Features
Remarks and explanations
(a) When software is designed to run on a system that has
a keyboard, product functions shall be executable from a
keyboard where the function itself or the result of
performing a function can be discerned textually.
Supports
Regarding Sharp imaging (one of the functions
of Sharpdesk® document management
software), some mouse commands do not
have a corresponding keyboard command.
(ex. range specification of image data).
All buttons and links can be focused using
keyboard in PRINTER DRIVER/ Printer Status
Monitor.
(b) Applications shall not disrupt or disable activated
features of other products that are identified as
accessibility features, where those features are developed
and documented according to industry standards.
Applications also shall not disrupt or disable activated
features of any operating system that are identified as
accessibility features where the application programming
interface for those accessibility features has been
documented by the manufacturer of the operating system
and is available to the product developer.
Supports
Sharpdesk software runs on Microsoft™ OS
and utilities.
PRINTER DRIVER/Printer Status Monitor are
not designed to disrupt or disable other
functions by design.
(c) A well-defined on-
screen indication of the current focus
shall be provided that moves among interactive interface
elements as the input focus changes. The focus shall be
programmatically exposed so that Assistive Technology
can track focus and focus changes.
Supports with
Limitations
If the focus changes, the target will change in
some ways. Ex. the frame color will change if a
thumbnail is focused. The text will be bold if
focused.
If the focus changes, the target will change in
some ways. Ex. the frame line will change if an
icon button is focused.
Criteria
Supporting Features Remarks and explanations
(d) Sufficient information about a user interface element
including the identity, operation and state of the element
shal
l be available to Assistive Technology. When an image
represents a program element, the information conveyed
by the image must also be available in text.
Supports with
Limitations
When Sharpdesk software displays image
data, text describing the image is also
displayed (ex. thumbnails are labeled with the
name of each file in Desktop).
The information conveyed by the image can be
available in text in Printer Driver.
The information conveyed by icon of printer
condition can be available in Printer Driver.
But, the information conveyed by mimic image
of MFP cannot be available in text in Printer
Status Monitor.