Accessibility of IBM Business Process Manager

Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully.

Accessibility features

IBM® Business Process Manager supports features for vision-impaired users, users with mobility impairments or limited hand use, hearing-impaired users, and cognitively impaired users.

For more information about the accessibility features that are available in IBM Business Process Manager, see Accessibility features in IBM Business Process Manager.

IBM BPM uses WAI-ARIA to comply with accessibility checkpoints. WAI-ARIA is supported using Mozilla Firefox version 3.6 or later and JAWS version 12 or later.

You can request a U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) on the IBM Product accessibility information web page.

Keyboard navigation

IBM BPM supports standard web browser navigation keys for its web interface and Microsoft Windows navigation keys for its Eclipse rich-client interface and command-line interface.

For information about the supported web browsers, see:
For information about keyboard navigation in the web browsers, see the following topics:
For details about the keyboard navigation options for specific product features, see Keyboard navigation.

Interface information

For interface characteristics for IBM Business Process Manager, including installation and administration characteristics, characteristics for business analysts, developers, and users, see Interface characteristics.

Vendor software

IBM BPM includes certain third-party software not covered under the IBM license agreement. IBM makes no representation about status of these products regarding the Section 508 of the U.S. Federal Rehabilitation. Contact the vendor for information about the Section 508 status of its products.

Documentation

The documentation that is included with IBM Business Process Manager is enabled for accessibility, for example:

The documentation is available in HTML formats to help you apply screen-reader software technology.
Images in the documentation are provided with alternative text that explains the contents of the images, which is helpful if you have a visual impairment.

IBM and accessibility

For more information about the commitment that IBM has to accessibility, see the IBM Accessibility Center.