Accessibility features of Venafi Platform

Venafi recognizes the importance of making our products accessible to people of all abilities. We're continually adding features that improve the overall accessibility of our products. In this release, you can benefit from the following accessibility features in Venafi's modern OneVenafi interface.

Keyboard-based navigation

You can use your keyboard to navigate through the product without the use a mouse using standard keyboard navigation conventions.

  • Use TAB to navigate from one focusable element to the next.

  • Use SHIFT + TAB to navigate to the previous focusable element.

  • Use ENTER to activate the element that has focus.

  • Use the keyboard arrow buttons (UP, RIGHT, DOWN, and LEFT) in the following ways:

    • UP or DOWN to switch between selections in a radio-style user element.

    • UP or DOWN to scroll the page up and down (if the element with focus is not a menu or a radio group)

    • PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN to scroll an entire page at a time in the desired direction

    • RIGHT or LEFT to move cursor one character in the indicated direction.

Additionally, the following accessibility features are available.

  • When a page loads, press TAB once to see the SKIP TO CONTENT option. Pressing ENTER will take you to the main section of the page, bypassing menus to make it easier to use the product, especially when you are on the page you need.

  • Use the SPACE BAR to check (select) or uncheck (deselect) check boxes.

  • When navigating the Aperture menus, you can use the following keyboard actions:

    • UP, RIGHT, DOWN, or LEFT to navigate through menus and sub-menus.

    • ENTER or DOWN opens a menu title so you can see its contents.

    • In a sub-menu, DOWN and UP allow you to navigate through that sub-menu.

    • In a sub-menu, ESC closes the sub-menu and takes focus back to the menu title.

    • In a sub-menu, RIGHT and LEFT close the sub-menu and move you to the adjacent menu titles.

    • In a sub-menu, UP to close a drop-down menu.

    • In a sub-menu, RIGHT or LEFT to exit the sub-menu.

  • If you are using the site in small-screen/responsive mode, note the following:

    • You press ENTER to activate the hamburger menu, then press TAB to navigate the menu.

    • When a menu title has focus, press ENTER or RIGHT to expand the menu.

    • The DOWN key just navigates to the next menu item. It does not expand a sub-menu.

    • The UP key expands the current menu item. To navigate to the previous top-level menu item, use ALT + TAB.

    • To close the menu and return to the page contents, press ESC.

Here are some tips for using the search feature in the menu bar:

  • Once you have entered at least three characters, the system starts searching, and a box will drop down with a list of matches; as you continue to type, it will refine the search further.

  • DOWN will enter the drop down list to allow you to navigate through the search results. ENTER will take you to the page for the selected object.

  • When in the search box itself ENTER will bring up a page with all the search results.

On the inventory pages there is a left bar with search filters. When using the search filters:

  • As you TAB through the available filters, any time you select filter criteria and press ENTER (or leave the field), the new filter criteria will be applied and the inventory list will be updated.

  • Some filters have a fixed set of options; ENTER will bring up the list of available options. You can arrow through them, and press ENTER to add the item to the filter criteria. If you want to add another, press ENTER again.

Additional accessibility features

  • As you press TAB, tool tips automatically display if an element has a tool tip. The tool tip is dismissed when you change focus to another item.

  • Accessibility features are provided in both standard top-menu mode, as well as in small-screen responsive mode.

  • On dashboard pages there are microwidgets. If you want to customized the order of the microwidgets, remove all microwidgets and add them back in the order you want to see them on the screen.

Venafi continues its multi-year process of deprecating features from the older "WebAdmin"-style interface (still seen in Policy Tree). Because these features are being migrated to the more modern OneVenafi interface, Venafi does not intend to make any changes to improve the accessibility of the Policy Tree.

As new features are moved from the Policy Tree into the modern interface, and as new features are added to the product, Venafi will continue enhancing the accessibility of the product to ensure people of all abilities can benefit from the product.

If you find areas of the web interface where accessibility can be improved, we welcome your feedback. Please contact Venafi Customer Support at support@venafi.com.

New Inventory accessibility features

Starting in the 20.2 release, Venafi began releasing new inventory tables based on an improved framework. The first inventory to use the new framework is the API Integrations Inventory. In future releases other inventories will be moved to this new framework and will have the same accessibility features.

TIP  You can tell if you are using an old inventory page or a new inventory page by looking for the Density button at the top of the table. If the Density button is there, you are using an inventory based on the new framework. If there is no Density button, it's an older table, and the following accessibility features don't apply.

To navigate the inventory using the keyboard:

  • Tab to the table by pressing the TAB key to move forward (or SHIFT + TAB to move backwards) until the first column heading has focus.

  • When a checkbox has focus, press the SPACE key to select or deselect the row.

When inside the table:

Key Description
Arrow keys
(up, down, right, left)		 Navigate between cells.
HOME Navigate to the first cell in the current row.
END Navigate to the last cell in the current row.
CTRL + HOME Navigate to the first cell of the first row.
CTRL + END Navigate to the last cell of the current row.
SPACE
(or PAGE DOWN)		 Navigate to the next scrollable page.
PAGE UP Navigate to the previous scrollable page.
CTRL + A Select all rows (for multi-row actions).
TAB Leave table to navigate to next control outside the table
SHIFT + TAB Leave table to navigate to previous control outside the table.

When a column heading has focus:

Key Description
ENTER Cycle through the sort options for that column.
CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER Open the column's action panel.

Details view. Top open the Details view, navigate to an item in the Name column, then press ENTER. Once in the details view:

Key Description
TAB Move between controls.
ENTER or SPACE Activate the control.
Arrow left and Arrow right When one of the tabs (like Overview) has focus, use the arrow keys to move between tabs, then press TAB to move to controls on the tab.
ESC Close the modal window and return to the previous screen.