Getting Started with the Output Delivery System

Accessibility Features in ODS

The Output Delivery System conforms to the U.S. Section 508 guidelines for Web-based content. If you have specific questions about the accessibility of SAS products, send them to accessibility@sas.com or call SAS Technical Support.

The following additional accessibility items are available as programming options:

Event Variables

ABBR: specifies an abbreviation for the event variable.
ACRONYM: specifies an acronym for an event variable.
ALT: specifies an alternate description of an event variable.
CAPTION: specifies the caption for a table.
LONGDESC: specifies the long description of an event variable.
SUMMARY: specifies a summary of a table.

Style Template:

STYLES.HIGHCONTRAST: creates the same output as the default output except all of the colors are black on white.

Header Attributes

ABBR=: specifies an abbreviation for the header.
ACRONYM=: specifies an acronym for the header.
ALT=: specifies an alternate description of the header.
GENERIC: specifies whether multiple columns can use the header.
LONGDESC=: specifies the long description of the header.

Table Attributes

LONGDESC=: specifies a long description of a table.
ALT=: specifies an alternate description of a table.

The following tagsets and ODS statements are 508 compliant:

ODS PHTML Statement: opens, manages, or closes the PHTML destination, which produces simple HTML output that uses twelve style elements and no class attributes.
ODS HTMLCSS Statement: opens, manages, or closes the HTMLCSS destination, which produces HTML output with cascading style sheets.
ODS HTML Statement: opens, manages, or closes the HTML destination, which produces HTML 4.0 output that contains embedded style sheets.
MSOFFICE2K tagset: produces HTML code for output generated by ODS for Microsoft Office products.

In SAS 9.1 and later releases, all of the accessibility enhancements have been merged into the ODS HTML tagsets. No additional steps are required.

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