Overview
This overview provides guidance on navigating Workday when using assistive technologies, including screen readers and keyboards, and tips on how to interact with Workday.
This section also covers accessibility tips for global elements in the page structure, components and controls used across Workday, and specific pages and tasks.
To view this content within Workday, access the Accessibility Interaction Overview task. You can navigate to this task via the Search box. If using a screen reader, the Accessibility Overview button is the second tab stop on every page.
Page Structure
Action Bars
- Action bars display at the end or bottom of some business process tasks or dialog boxes. Use buttons on the action bar to navigate to the next step
- Alt+4 (Option+4 on Mac) navigates to the action bar from anywhere on the page
Headings
- Most of Workday tasks begin with a heading (one level) that identifies the purpose of or business process associated with the task.
- Workday can also display other heading levels, providing a task with an additional hierarchical structure beneath one heading.
User Interface Regions
If searching for specific regions with a screen reader, you can expect the following on most Workday pages:
- Banner
- Search
- Main
Additional Regions
- Action toolbar
- Error and Alerts
- Navigation contining a list of items
- Reading pane with details about navigation items
Components & Controls
Date & Time Input
Date and time inputs allow you to input a date or time to a task. To navigate date and time inputs (including the year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond) use:
- Left arrow to move to previous field
- Right arrow to move to next field
- Up arrow to increase value
- Down arrow to decrease value
Errors & Alerts
Errors prevent a user from submitting a form or completing a task. Alerts provide a recommendation but will not prevent a user from completing a task. Workday displays an error or alert when you:
- Enter information outside of an allowed range
- Do not complete requried field
Each issue with a specific input field in the View All Pop-up Errors and Alerts panel has a link you can select to:
- Close the pop up
- Move your focus to specific field
To interact with error pop-ups using a screen reader:
- After form submission, keyboard focus automatically sets on the error and alerts at the end of the form
- If lost, we recommend that you use the Alt + 4 keystroke (Option + 4 on Mac) to focus on the action bar along the bottom of the page
- Alternatively, you can go to the bottom of the page by selecting Control + End (Command + Down Arrow on Mac)
Input Prompts
Prompts are a control that allows single-option or multiple-option selection.
- To filter the list of options, type a Search term and press enter/return.
- To display all available options leave the prompt empty and press enter/return.
- To navigate when options are displayed, use:
- Down arrow to navigate to the next item.
- Up arrow to navigate to the previous item.
- Right arrow to open a sub menu
- Left arrow to close a sub menu
- Enter/Return or space to select an option.
- Esc to close the prompt.
- To navigate to selected options, first ensure that your focus is in the prompt input. Then use:
- Up or down arrow to navigate to a selected option.
- Delete to remove an option from the prompt selection.
- If a Related Actions button is present on an option, use Alt+R on PC or Option-R on Mac.
- Select a single option. Workday closes the menu once you’ve made a selection.
- For multi-option prompts, select one or more options. Select Esc to close the prompt.
Related Actions
The Related Actions button enables you to see all actions related to a specific item:
- Enter/Return or spacebar to select/open
- Up arrow to navigate to previous item
- Down arrow to navigate to the next item
Rich Text Editor
The rich text editor provides formatting for text fields. Use:
| Key | Description |
| Alt + 0 | Opens the Accessibility Instructions dialog window |
| Alt + F10 | Enters the toolbar or tab list of the currently oepn dialog window |
| Alt + F11 | Enters the element’s path |
| Right Arrow | Moves to the next toolbar button within the group, context menu suboption, dialog window element, or dialog window tab while in the tab list. |
| Down Arrow | Move to the next pull-down list or contect menu option |
| Left Arrow | Moves to the previous toolbar button wihtin the group, context menu parent option, element’s path element, dialog window element, or dialog window tab while in the tab list |
| Up Arrow | Moves to the previous pull-down menu list or contect menu option |
| Space or Enter | Activates a toolbar button, a context menu option, a pull down list option, an element’s path element, or a dialog windo tab, once selected. Also, enters a context menu submenu if avaliable |
Search, Popup Menus and Listboxes
To interact with search, pop up menus and listboxes use the following suggestions:
- Down arrow to move to the next option
- Up arrow to move to the previous option
- Enter/Return key to activate a suggested option
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