43 Building an Accessible JSP-based Web Report

Using Oracle Reports and the standards defined in the Web Accessibility Guidelines, you can create a report that produces output that is compatible with assistive technologies such as screen readers. Oracle Reports provides properties and tags to support this effort.

On the Oracle accessibility site (http://www.oracle.com/accessibility), you can learn more about accessibility and find the Creating Accessible Enterprise Reports using Oracle Reports white paper.

To learn more about creating accessible Web reports, refer to the example on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN):

1. On the Oracle Reports 10g page (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/reports/index.html), click Getting Started to display the Getting Started with Oracle Reports home page.

2. In the list of topic sections on the left, click Index.

3. In the Topic list, choose Building and Developing Reports.

4. In the Collateral Type list, choose Examples.

5. Click Search.

6. In the list of topics that displays, click Building an Accessible JSP-based Web Report.

In this example, you will also learn how to modify an existing paper-based report to be accessible.