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SAP and Accessibility

SAP Accessibility | Public SAP Accessibility Guidelines

Updated: March 9, 2012

On this page, we present SAP's Accessibility team and provide accessibility guidelines that have been released to the public.

 

SAP Accessibility

SAP is committed to making our products accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. In response to the need to ensure compliance with U.S. federal regulations and, most importantly, to begin taking steps to make sure that SAP solutions meet the needs of all SAP users, SAP has established the Accessibility Team at Walldorf, Germany.

Selected Articles

• Accessibility (overview article)
• SAP Accessibility Competence Center – Accessibility for Ben, Iris and Oliver
• Accessibility for ABAP Programs
• SAP Application and Technology Tests for Accessibility

SAP Accessibility Links

• SAP's Public Accessibility Website
• Accessibility on SAP Service Marketplace

SAP Design Guild Edition on Accessibility

This twelfth edition of the SAP Design Guild, which has been published in cooperation with SAP's Accessibility Competence Center (ACC) (now called "Accessibility") in Walldorf, Germany, has two focus points. Firstly, we report about SAP's activities in the accessibility field by presenting SAP's accessibility standard, testing procedures, and products status documents, in which SAP reports the accessibility status of its products. And secondly, we address more technical topics.

• Overview of the Accessibility Edition (2012)

External Articles About SAP and Accessibility

• Breaking Down Barriers (German version: Hürden überwinden; German version; published in German in blaupause 02-2007, the members' magazine of the German-Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG))

Books About SAP and Accessibility

• Josef Köble (Ed.) (2007). Developing Accessible Software with SAP NetWeaver. Galileo Press. ISBN: 1592291120
  Also available as e-book. ISBN: 9781592292424
  German version: Josef Köble (Hrsg.) (2007). Entwicklung barrierefreier Software mit SAP NetWeaver. Galileo Press. ISBN: 3898428621

Conferences

CSUN 2007

• SAP CSUN 2007 Presentation Outline
• Accessible Software Architectural Design and Standard

CSUN 2008

• Presentation: Adding Additional Accessibility Capabilities to Installed Software After Shipment
• Presentation: Benefit of Good UI Design in Web-Applications for Disabled and Non-Disabled Users

ICCHP 2008

• Presentation: Quality Processes and Milestones for the Development and Monitoring of Business Software in the area of Accessibility
• Quality Processes and Milestones for the Development and Monitoring of Business Software in the area of Accessibility’s Presentation Outline

 

Public SAP Accessibility Guidelines

The following accessibility guidelines have been released to the public by SAP:

• Frontend Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility (see also: German Version)
• Keyboard Control of UI Elements (see also: German Version)
• Keyboard Access for Web Dynpro for ABAP / for Java (see also: German Version)
• Accessibility Guidelines for ABAP Dynpro
  See also: Accessibility for ABAP Programs
• Accessibility Guidelines for Web Dynpro for ABAP and Web Dynpro for Java
• Accessibility Guidelines for SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

 

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