508 Compliance

Substantial portions of the application are known to be non 508 compliant. The sections of the application that are 508 compliant are Vocational Rehabilitation (VocRehab), Virtual VA (VVA), Enterprise Search and HIA Search. The recommended screen reader for the CAPRI application is JAWS 11.

 

The VA 508 Component framework is used to provide an interface in CAPRI for communication with the screen reader.  VA 508 Accessibility Manager is required to use the framework and it supports other 508 components.  VA 508 Component Accessibility is used to provide additional properties and events for CAPRI.  Most standard screen reader shortcut keys do not work in CAPRI. The user may utilize accelerator keys where available or the [Tab] key to move between controls on the page.  The [Tab] key and the [Up], [Down] arrow keys will navigate most fields.  Grids and tabular data displays do not have a consistent interface and the [Tab] key and [Up] [Down] arrow keys should be used for reading these controls as well.  There is no means to read the entire page by using the arrow keys as can be done for HTML pages.