Accessibility in Web Applications

Where possible and practical, the design of your Web application meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA level and US Section 508. Oracle shows leadership in not only attempting to meet mandates, but in providing very practical and usable business solutions for business users and consumers that require accessibility features. Accessibility is always enabled and requires no special tasks for users. No action is required to enable accessibility features outside of availability of appropriate assistive technology.

In order to address these accessibility standards, your Web application relies on the WAI-ARIA coding techniques (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications). One example of WAI-ARIA that has been implemented are Regions, which allow users to navigate to various parts of a page such as the Menu, Toolbar and Applets using keyboard shortcuts provided by assistive technology that has also implemented WAI-ARIA.

Note: To fully leverage Accessibility in Web applications, end users must use browsers and assistive technologies that have implemented WAI-ARIA. Only a subset of accessibility features is available without support of WAI-ARIA.

For information about WCAG 2.0, visit the following website: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

For information about US Section 508, visit the following website: http://www.section508.gov/