More Accessible Mode remains enabled until you turn it off or close your browser. Because this is a local setting, no one besides you knows that you enabled this setting. More Accessible Mode changes the way that the page renders for you, not for other users of the site. This is because the browser menus or toolbars may initially have the active focus.
Even though the link to turn on More Accessible Mode is the first element in the tab order - which means that it is the first option that you interact with on the page - you may need to press the TAB key more than once to activate the feature. You turn More Accessible Mode on or off by pressing the TAB key immediately after placing For example, if someone in your organization customizes a SharePoint site by adding a custom control, enabling More Accessible Modeĭoes not automatically create an alternate version of that control. More Accessible Mode does not enable alternate versions of every UI element. This rendering ensures that users of assistive technologies are able to interact with the custom controls.
This mode rendersĬustom controls as an equivalent standard HTML controls. Because some custom UI elements do not use MSAA properties, you can turn on More Accessible Mode.
MSAA enables people with disabilities to interact with content by using assistive technologies such as screen readers, which are devices that provide a synthesized speech or Braille description of what a blind or low-vision user is unable to see on a computer screen or Web site. In a SharePoint site, most user interface (UI) elements, such as links, form controls, and buttons, are designed to use Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). Images, alternative text, and display settings