Re: Accessibility of Cognos
- From: "Dorene Cornwell" <dorenefc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:16:52 -0700
Hi Eileen
Sorry about the half message. I was thinking more about your question and I
decided just to post from my experience. I hope it is helpful though I am
kind of flinging out jargon just guessing about what might help.
When I think about accessibility of something like Cognos, I ahtink about a
few different things:
--How accessible is the front end?
The demos mentioned in my previous message offer suggestions, but that is
often hard to tell in the final analysis until has a copy of the software.
Demo shows use of lots of standard dialogue boxes and reusable objects
--How feasible is it to code using SQL of MDDB statments instead of relying
on the GUI interface.
--How accessible is the back end, administrative side. How easy is it to
build reports, maintain existing libraries of reports and objects build
analytical cubes, update data, run reports off relational tables vs build
cubes (depending on which of these routes you choose)
--How accessible is the report output? For what it's worth the demo showed
options for Excel, HTML, XML
I suppose when thinking about supporting the applications you mentioned, the
other question is what is expected of your department? How much are you
expected to be able to update or modify reporting structures vs just
supporting the right mappings of input data into the processes, managing
metadata, that kind of thing?
I am in this weird position because I have lots of past experience to help
think about what questions to pose. But I am not that sophisticated a JAWS
user. I am still working out how to do programming and technical stuff
through more audio and much less visual methods. And finally to develop
skills in those areas I decided that just concentrating on a couple classes
in high-end office skills might be as helpful as trying to deal with
specific tools.
Anyway, good luck.
DoreneC
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Eileen Lafond
<Eileen.Lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Thanks so much for your research. I will check it out.
>
>
>
> Eileen La Fond
> Phone (206) 386-0011
> e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >>> "Dorene Cornwell" <dorenefc@xxxxxxxxx> 8/18/2008 7:08 PM >>>
> Hi Eileen
>
> The topic interests me so I went tried various things on Goggle:
>
> JFW+Cognos
> (lots of stuff that is irrelevant but one inquiry from 2004. Might be worth
> tryint to contact this person.)
>
> //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw/03-2004/msg00389.html
>
> The main Cognos site mentions JFW 4.5 for Section 508 compliance in version
> 7 but nothing I could find fast for anyof the Ver 8 suite.
> http://support.cognos.com/en/support/products/environments.html
>
> A bug report with JAWS 5
> http://cognos.cnyric.org/cognos/help/html/rm/en/sr_rdmtoc.html
>
> Searching on JAWS+Cognos yielded the above plus assorted irrelevant.
>
> When you get a new assignment like this, do you every just write the vendor
> and say basically what you posted to the list:
>
> "My team is taking over.... and will need to access it using JFW. What do I
> need to know to make it work?"
> I KNOW one might not expect much, but why not start from the reasonable
> request and see how they respond?
>
> GOOD LUCK
>
> DoreneC
>
> Seattle WA
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Eileen Lafond
> <Eileen.Lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was told that our team is taking over a certain application that uses
> > Cognos. Can anyone tell me if this software is accessible to screen
> > readers? JFW in particular.
> >
> > The official names of the tools are as follows:
> >
> > Cognos 8 BI Framework Manager
> > Cognos 8 BI Report Studio
> >
> > FYI: BI = "Business Intelligence"
> >
> > Thanks for any assistance,
> >
> > Eileen La Fond
> > Phone (206) 386-0011
> > e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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