Accessibility for handicapped colleagues

[Residentstiefel]

Hi KNIME,

Working for a larger company, we need to review software according to its accessibility for disadvantaged people, i.e., (color-)blind, keyboard usage vs. mouse etc.

Is there a guide for this, e.g., what settings to use when I have a limited ability to use the mouse or so?
I would be curious if something like this already exists or is planned? Also with respect to the new UI?

Thanks,
Stiefel

[mlauber71]

@Residentstiefel there has been a debate about this before. I have seen (older) evaluations of KNIME where a lot of functions could be done by shortcuts.

How blinds can use Knime?

…this is an interesting question that we really didn’t think much about so far, I must admit. As (the other) Michael wrote, on the WebPortal side it works to some extend, but on the workflow editor side of KNIME Analytics Platform it’s a bit more complex. Eclipse’s GEF (on which this is currently based), seems to have experimental “WCAG 2.0 support” but we’d need to investigate what this actually means for our workflow editor. We are moving this part to a browser editor anyway right now, so it’s…

I am not aware of any ‘recommended’ settings or default themes. What I see in the version 4.7.1 are these settings that might help:

Font settings in appearance:

Keys

It might be an idea to develop a collection of settings or a guide that would provide some sort of standard for using KNIME with no/few mouse interaction.