Accessibility features

This document is available in an HTML version that is specialized for accessibility. You can navigate the HTML with an adaptive technology such as a screen reader, or view it with a screen enlarger.

Sybase IQ 15.0 and the HTML documentation have been tested for compliance with U.S. government Section 508 Accessibility requirements. Documents that comply with Section 508 generally also meet non-U.S. accessibility guidelines, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines for Web sites.

For Section 508 compliant installation guides and release bulletins, see the HTML files on your Getting Started CD.

The online help for this product is also provided as HTML-based JavaHelp, which you can navigate using a screen reader.

For information about accessibility support in the Sybase IQ plug-in for Sybase Central, see “Using accessibility features” in the Introduction to Sybase IQ. The online help for this product, which you can navigate using a screen reader, also describes accessibility features, including Sybase Central keyboard shortcuts and using this product without a mouse.

For information about how Sybase supports accessibility, see Sybase Accessibility. The Sybase Accessibility site includes links to information on Section 508 and W3C standards.

For a Section 508 compliance statement for Sybase IQ, go to Sybase Accessibility.

You might need to configure your accessibility tool for optimal use. Some screen readers pronounce text based on its case; for example, they pronounce ALL UPPERCASE TEXT as initials, and MixedCase Text as words. You might find it helpful to configure your tool to announce syntax conventions, or to pronounce certain characters or punctuation such as underscore. Consult the documentation for your tool and see the Introduction to Sybase IQ for information on using screen readers. See the following table for pronunciation guidelines for important terms.

**Table 4: ABBR and ACRONYM values**
Term	Element value
$IQDIR15/bin	dollar I Q D I R fifteen slash bin
iqdemo	I Q demo
DBISQL	D B I sequel
dbname.db	D B name dot D B
dbname.log	D B name dot log
dbname.iqtmp You can apply this technique to other filenames with extensions.	D B name dot I Q T M P
dbspace	D B space
DSEDIT	D S edit
IDs	I deez
I/O	I O
iq_dummy	I Q underscore dummy
IQ_SYSTEM_MAIN	I Q underscore system underscore main
libtcl.cfg	L I B T C L dot C F G
start_iq	start underscore I Q
start_iq.exe	start underscore I Q dot e x e
SQL	sequel (not S Q L, except when explaining how to pronounce SQL, or when it is what you type, like a password. JAWS reads SQL as S Q L by default.)
®	registered trademark
™	trademark
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