Accessibility

Accessibility features help a user who has a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use software products successfully.

Features

These are the major accessibility features in the SAN Volume Controller Console:

You can use screen-reader software and a digital speech synthesizer to hear what is displayed on the screen. The following screen reader has been tested: Window-Eyes v6.1.
You can operate all features using the keyboard instead of the mouse.
When setting or changing an IP address on the SAN Volume Controller front panel, you can disable the fast increase function to reduce the address scrolling speed of the up and down buttons to two seconds. This feature is documented in the topic that discusses initiating cluster creation from the front panel, which is located in the IBM® System Storage® SAN Volume Controller Information Center and the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

Navigating by keyboard

You can use keys or key combinations to perform operations and initiate many menu actions that can also be done through mouse actions. You can navigate the SAN Volume Controller Console and help system from the keyboard by using the following key combinations:

To traverse to the next link, button, or topic, press Tab inside a frame (page).
To expand or collapse a tree node, press → or ←, respectively.
To move to the next topic node, press V or Tab.
To move to the previous topic node, press ^ or Shift+Tab.
To scroll all the way up or down, press Home or End, respectively.
To go back, press Alt+←.
To go forward, press Alt+→.
To go to the next frame, press Ctrl+Tab.
To move to the previous frame, press Shift+Ctrl+Tab.
To print the current page or active frame, press Ctrl+P.
To select, press Enter.

Accessing the publications

You can find the HTML version of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller information at the following Web site:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/svcic/v3r1m0/index.jsp

You can access this information using screen-reader software and a digital speech synthesizer to hear what is displayed on the screen. JAWS version 10 has been tested.