Getting started

The application frame

Once you are signed in, every page of Sequality sits in the same frame: a sidebar on the left and the page beside it. There is no bar across the top on a wide screen.

At the top of the sidebar, the Sequality mark and name link to Home. Beside them, the Sidebar button collapses the sidebar to a rail of icons and expands it again. Below them, Jump to… opens a list you can filter (see below). Then comes the navigation, named "Sequality sections", with five destinations:

Home is your work queue: your newest searches and cases, New search and New case, and the versions this installation runs with, under "Versions in force".
New search starts a search of one or more sequences outside a case.
My searches lists the searches you own, newest first.
Cases lists your cases. New case starts one from an application's documents.
Sequences opens the sequence editor and your saved sequences.

The destination you are in is marked by a bar at its start, bold text and a shaded background. Under the destinations, Recent cases lists your five newest cases, and All cases opens the whole list.

The foot of the sidebar names you and your roles, then holds Sign out and Theme. When your installation sets a help address, a Help link there opens it in a new tab.

The Cases page in the application frame. On the left, the sidebar: the Sequality mark and name, the Sidebar toggle, Jump to with its keyboard shortcut, the destinations Home, New search, My searches, Cases (the current one) and Sequences, Recent cases with two cases and All cases, and in its foot the line naming who is signed in and their role, Sign out and Theme. Beside it, the Cases heading with a New case button and a table of two cases, newest first. — The application frame and the Cases list. Screenshot of the product's test fixtures: placeholder records and patent numbers, not search results.

The sidebar is open on a wide window. On a narrower one it starts as a rail: the mark, the toggle, Jump to… and each destination as an icon whose name shows when you point at it or focus it, your initials and Sign out as an icon. Recent cases, Theme and Help are not in the rail; expand the sidebar to reach them. The browser keeps your choice of open or rail, also after you sign out.

On a small screen, or at a high zoom level, a bar at the top of the page holds Menu, the mark and name, the line that names you, and Sign out. Menu opens a panel with Jump to…, the destinations, Recent cases, Theme and Help. Choosing a link closes the panel; Escape closes it and returns focus to Menu.

Keyboard

The first stop for the keyboard is Skip to main content, which moves focus past the sidebar to the page's content. Within each list in the sidebar, the Up and Down arrow keys, Home and End move between links, and Tab still reaches every link.

Whenever the sidebar or its rail is shown, Command+B on a Mac, or Ctrl+B elsewhere, collapses and expands the sidebar, and Command+K or Ctrl+K opens the Jump to… list. Neither works while focus is in a form field or an editor, so those keep their own keys.

Each browser tab is titled with the page's name followed by "- Sequality", so open tabs can be told apart.

Color scheme

Theme has three choices: System follows your operating system's setting, and Light and Dark fix the scheme. Both schemes are tested the same way.

When something does not load

A page that could not load says so, and says why it is not an empty result: "This is not a refusal of access and not an empty result." The page then offers Try loading again. A fault is not shown as an empty result, and a refusal of access is not shown as a fault.

Where to go next

To work from an application's claims and sequence listing, read Cases and claim features.
To search a sequence directly, read Searching.
To learn what each role can do, read Sign-in and roles.