Workday Accessibility

This overview provides guidance on navigating Workday when using assistive technologies, including screen readers and keyboards, and tips on how to interact with Workday.

This document also covers accessibility tips for global elements in the page structure, components and controls used across Workday, and specific pages and tasks. We organized the topics within each section alphabetically.

To view this content within Workday, access the Accessibility Interaction Overview task. You can navigate to this task via the Search box. If using a screen reader, the Accessibility Overview button is the second tab stop on every page.

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Page Structure

Action Bars

• Action bars display at the end or bottom of some business process tasks or dialog boxes. Use buttons on the action bar to navigate to the next step.

• Alt + 4 (Option + 4 on Mac) navigates to the action bar from anywhere on the page.

Headings

• Most Workday tasks begin with a heading (level one) that identifies the purpose of or business process associated with the task.

• Workday can also display other heading levels, providing a task with an additional hierarchical structure beneath heading one.

User Interface Regions

If searching for specific regions with a screen reader, you can expect the following on most Workday pages:

• Banner

• Search

• Main

Additional regions include:

• Action toolbar

• Errors or warnings

• Navigation containing a list of items

• Reading pane containing details about navigation items

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