#546 User Accessibility Issues

[Richard Theisen]

Hello,
My organization is evaluating SQuirreL for inclusion into our application baseline. Part of the evaluation is an individual’s ability to navigate the GUI without a mouse and receive verbal instructions via JAWS. Our testers found three primary issues.

SQuirreL version being test 3.7.1

1. Certain user interface elements are not accessible via the keyboard. As an example, within the “New Session Properties” window, the radio buttons, buttons, text box and check box are not accessible via the keyboard.

Expected result: All user interface elements are expected to be accessible via the keyboard. In this instance the radio buttons, buttons, text box and check box are expected to be accessible via the keyboard.

Note: This defect may exist elsewhere within the application.

1. Labels for certain fields are not announced by JAWS. As an example, within the “New Session Properties” window, the “Main Tabs:” combo box is announced by JAWS, “Appearance, group box combo box closed Top 1 of 4 to change the selection use the arrow keys” instead of first announcing the label as “Appearance, Main Tabs: group box combo box closed Top 1 of 4 to change the selection use the arrow keys”.

Expected result: All labels are expected to be announced by JAWS. In this instance, JAWS is expected to announce “Appearance, Main Tabs: group box combo box closed Top 1 of 4 to change the selection use the arrow keys”.

Note: This defect also exists elsewhere within the application.

Within the “SQuirreL SQL Client Plugin Summary” window, the identity of the “Load At Startup” checkboxes is not announced by JAWS. As an example when the checkbox in column 1, row 1 is accessed JAWS announces, “Column 1 Row 1 Load At Startup True” instead of announcing the checkbox as, “Column 1 Row 1 Load At Startup checkbox checked”.

Expected result: Expected result: The identity of all user interface elements is expected to be announced by JAWS. In this instance JAWS is expected to announce, “Column 1 Row 1 Load At Startup checkbox checked”.

Note: This defect may exist elsewhere within the application.