Accessibility for the SAS Output Delivery System

The Output Delivery System (ODS) conforms to Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act 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

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For information about the following event variables, see the Event Variables in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

ABBR

specifies an abbreviation for an event variable.

ACRONYM

specifies an acronym for an event variable.

ALT

specifies an alternate description of an event variable.

CAPTION

specifies a caption for a table.

LONGDESC

specifies a 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

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For information about the following header attributes, see the Event Variables in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

ABBR=

specifies an abbreviation for a header.

ACRONYM=

specifies an acronym for a header.

ALT=

specifies an alternate description of a header.

GENERIC

specifies whether multiple columns can use the same header.

LONGDESC=

specifies a long description of a header.

Table Attibutes

LONGDESC=

specifies a long description of a table.

ALT=

specifies an alternate description of a table.

The following tagsets and ODS statements create output that is 508 compliant:

ODS PHTML Statement

opens, manages, or closes the PHTML destination, which produces simple HTML output that uses 12 style elements and no class attributes. For more information about the ODS PHTML statement, see the ODS PHTML Statement in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

ODS HTMLCSS Statement

opens, manages, or closes the HTMLCSS destination, which produces HTML output with cascading style sheets (CSS). For more information about the ODS HTMLCSS statement, see the ODS HTMLCSS Statement in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

ODS HTML Statement

opens, manages, or closes the HTML destination, which produces HTML 4.0 output that contains embedded style sheets. For more information about the ODS HTML statement, see the ODS HTML Statement in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

MSOFFICE2K Tagset

produces HTML code for output generated by ODS for Microsoft Office products. For more information about the MSOFFICE2K tagset, see MSOFFICE2K in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

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.