Audience: Employee

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.

Components and Controls

Date and Time Inputs

Date and time inputs allow you to input a date or time to a task.

To navigate date and time inputs (including the year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond), use:

Left arrow to move to previous field.
Right arrow to move to next field.
Up arrow to increase value.
Down arrow to decrease value.

Errors and Warnings

Errors prevent a user from submitting a form or completing a task. Warnings provide a recommendation but will not prevent a user from completing a task.

Workday displays an error or warning when you:

Enter information outside of an allowed range.
Do not complete a required field.

Each issue with a specific input field in the View All pop-up and Errors and Warnings panel has a link you can select to:

Close the pop-up modal.
Move your focus to the specific field.
Hear the details about the error or warning.

To interact with error pop-ups using a screen reader:

After form submission, keyboard focus automatically sets on the errors and warnings at the end of the form.
If lost, we recommend that you use the Alt + 4 keystroke to set focus to the action bar along the bottom of the page. Use the Tab key to locate the errors and warnings again.
Alternatively, you can go to the bottom of the page by selecting Control + End.

Input Prompts

Prompts are controls that allow single-option or multiple-option selection.

To filter the list of options, type a search term and select Enter.
To display all options, leave the prompt empty and select Enter.

To navigate through the displayed options, use:

Down arrow to navigate to the next item.
Up arrow to navigate to the previous item.
Right arrow to open a submenu.
Left arrow to close a submenu.
Enter or spacebar to select an option.
Single-option selection. Workday closes the menu once you select an option.
Esc to close the prompt.

To navigate to selected options, first ensure that your focus is on the prompt input. Then use:

Up or down arrow to navigate to a selected option.
Delete to remove an option from the prompt selection.
Single-option selection. Workday closes the menu once you select an option.

For multi-option prompts, select one or more options. Select Esc to close the prompt.

Related Actions Button

The Related Actions button allows you to review all actions related to a specific item. Use:

Enter or the spacebar to select and open.
Up arrow to navigate to the previous item.
Down arrow to navigate to the next item.
Right or left arrow to open or close a submenu.

Rich Text Editor

A rich text editor is a text area that supports font formatting and styling. Use:

Tab and Shift + Tab to focus the formatting toolbar above the text area.
Right arrow to navigate to the next button in the formatting toolbar.
Left arrow to navigate to the previous button in the formatting toolbar.
Space or Enter to activate buttons on the formatting toolbar.

Search, Popup Menus, and Listboxes

To interact with a suggested option, use:

Down arrow to move to the next option.
Up arrow to move to the previous option.
Enter to activate a suggested option.

Tables

Page numbers display automatically. Users can move to the last and first page or enter a page. The Show All Rows feature allows the user to display all rows on one page.