Accessibility Features

SAS BI Dashboard includes the following accessibility and compatibility features that improve usability of the product for users with disabilities. These features are related to accessibility standards for electronic information technology that were adopted by the U.S. Government under Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

If you have questions or concerns about the accessibility of SAS products, send e-mail to accessibility@sas.com.

SAS BI Dashboard conforms to accessibility standards for the Windows platform and uses the same keyboard shortcuts as other Windows applications. For specific information about Windows accessibility features, refer to your operating system's help.

The supported Web browser for SAS BI Dashboard is Microsoft Internet Explorer. For information about the accessibility features of Internet Explorer, use the Index in the Internet Explorer Help to locate the topics about "accessibility."

The SAS BI Dashboard is built with Adobe Flex 3 for rendering in the Adobe Flash Player. As documented on the Adobe Bug and Issue Management System, known issues impair interoperability between Flex-based application in the Flash Player and assistive technologies such as the Freedom Scientific JAWS screen reader. Adobe offers JAWS scripts to improve the interoperability; see Using Adobe Flex Applications with JAWS on the Adobe Web site to download the scripts. In addition, software developers must enable accessibility (it is not enabled by default) in each project at compile time.

Although the scripts do improve interoperability with JAWS, SAS test results have shown that, even when using the JAWS scripts, neither dynamic updates nor key semantic information is communicated to the screen reader through the Windows Accessibility API (MSAA).

As Adobe continues to improve the accessibility of its Flex Commons library and Flash Player, SAS plans to leverage these improvements to continue improving the interoperability of our Flex-based software with assistive technologies.

There are currently no known exceptions to accessibility standards.