topic Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508 in QlikView

QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:22:36 GMT

Hello Community,

Is there anybody who works with the

QlikView Accessibility Extensions ?

I have the Exetension from

Here ist some Information about it (see Link Section 508 VPAT 😞
http://www.qlik.com/us/explore/solutions/industries/public-sector/government

The Exetension ist aviable on Qlik-Market:

QlikView Accessibility Client Extension

But there is no dokumentation about how to develope it.

Please Help.

Thanks,

Daniel

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

jerrysvensson — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:54:42 GMT

I have the same question.

My clients have people that are blind and want to use QlikView. They use JAWS as screenreader.

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:34:00 GMT

Let me start by apologizing for not responding earlier.

When downloading the extension from Qlik Market there is a manual in the zip file that describes how to use the extension. Please let me know if there's any more questions regarding the extension.

Regards,

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

jerrysvensson — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:40:39 GMT

I have found the manual and built an application.

Are you responsible for the extension?

I have some more questions but I rather handle them in a mail if that is possible?

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:48:19 GMT

Hi Jerry,

Please post any questions here in the Community. There might be others that also find the answers useful.

Regards,

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

jerrysvensson — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:53:29 GMT

It could be sensitive questions, I will contact salesrep instead.

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:49:26 GMT

Sara --

I am looking to using the objects portion of the extension. However, I am prompted with a js error when I go to build on of the extension objects. On the documentation within the extension, it mentions that there should be a .qar file, however, I only have .zip files (which I extracted and copied over to their proper local locations.

Can you offer advice on how to get the objects of the extension working? The document extension properties are working correctly.

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

petter — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:06:01 GMT

A .qar file is a ZIP-file but with another extension. So you can change the extension from .zip to .qar and back depending on what you need to do with the file...

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:40:15 GMT

Peter --

That is what I thought. I move the the folders Accessible Button, AccessibleListbox, AccessibleStraightTable and Accessible Textbox into the path appdata\loca\qliktech\qlikview\extension\objects.

At this point, the extension objects appear in my list of extension objects within the .qvw. However, when I drag one of these objects into the dashboard I receive the script error: Line 25, Char 79401, Unable to get property 'prototype' of undefined or null reference, Code 0, URL http:\\qlikview\qVaJAXzFc\QvAjas.js

Do you have any suggestions to get this running correctly?

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:49:54 GMT

Sara --

I move the the folders Accessible Button, AccessibleListbox, AccessibleStraightTable and Accessible Textbox into the path appdata\loca\qliktech\qlikview\extension\objects.

Do you have any suggestions to get this running correctly?

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:56:26 GMT

The object folders should be in this path ...AppData\Local\QlikTech\QlikView\Extensions\Objects\QlikView

I suspect the error is that you are missing the final QlikView folder.

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:57:13 GMT

Same reply as above:

The object folders should be in this path ...AppData\Local\QlikTech\QlikView\Extensions\Objects\QlikView

I suspect the error is that you are missing the final QlikView folder.

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:26:29 GMT

Sarah --

Suppose I have a button that shifts a variable value which then prompts the display of an additional text box to appear. In my use I have a 'open help document' button that launches a help text object to appear on the screen. Once the open button is clicked, only then does this additional text arise AND the open help doc button dissapears and a close help doc button appears. In the tab indexing. I have set this open to 10, the help text box to 11 and the close to 12. However, because the initial open disappears the keyboard tabbing to the next object isnt working properly. Do you have any suggestions? I am building this for users that will not have a mouse.

Thanks!

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 08:38:05 GMT

Hi Katherine,

I'm not sure it would work but perhaps you could use the variable to change the behavior of button 1 so it would toggle between open and close?

That way button 1 is always there, making button 2 obsolete, and you should be able to tab to the text object.

However, I'm a bit hesitant to objects appearing and disappearing in an accessible app.

Regards,

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:58:57 GMT

Thanks Sara for the suggestion. The more I consider the extension and an accessible console, I am more and more leaning to leaving the non-compliant version as is and creating a separate compliant version.

One last question - in the accessible straight tables, a screen reader is suppose to be able to read each cell within the table, right? I will soon be using JAWS screen reader, but am using NDVA in the short term. In NDVA, only the column headers can be read.

Thanks again!

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:54:17 GMT

Another question. I have been trying to work around this all day. I need to launch a URL to open from a button. The accessibility documentation says to use a macro for this. I was able to successfully do this in desktop. BUT, macros dont work on ajax web clients. Any ideas?

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:27:27 GMT

Sounds like a good idea in this case.

The extension is tested with NVDA so I will look into that problem.

What version of QlikView are you running?

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:29:57 GMT

I'm not a developer and my knowledge about macros in QlikView is extremely limited so I'm afraid I cannot help you out here. Sorry.

/Sara

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

jerrysvensson — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:30:32 GMT

Some macros do work in Ajax, altough not in Developer when working in WebVIew mode.

Have you tried it in a published application?

Re: QlikView Accessibility Extensions - Section 508

sgk — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:08:05 GMT

Hi Katherine,

I tried out a simple application with NVDA and it actually read out all of the cells in my accessible straight table as I was moving around in it.

I'm using QV11.20 SR10 and the latest version of NVDA, 2015.3.

/Sara