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SAP and Accessibility

SAP Accessibility Competence Center (ACC) | Public SAP Accessibility Guidelines

Last Revision: 11/20/2008

On this page, we present SAP's Accessibility Competence Center and 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

• 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

In this 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, you will get an overview on the current situation around accessibility in the world regarding legislation, standards and technologies, and it will also give you an insight on SAP’s standpoint towards these developments all over the world.

• Overview of the Accessibility Edition (2005)

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 new
  German version: Josef Köble (Hrsg.) (2007). Entwicklung barrierefreier Software mit SAP NetWeaver. Galileo Press. ISBN: 3898428621

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

 

Public SAP Accessibility Guidelines

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

• Accessibility for Enterprise Software – Architecture and Constraints
• 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

 

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