Re: GW Micro Announces Support for Java Applications

  • From: Octavian Râsnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:17:38 +0200

Jaws can access the apps that use SWING, but only using the virtual cursor and not the PC cursor or the Jaws cursor which is not very good.
I don't know if this is because JAB doesn't offer all the necessary properties of the current app, or because Jaws simply doesn't have a good support for SWING. 

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:52 PM
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Not that I have seen, even with the bridge installed.

Have a great day,
Alex


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:27:32 -0500
Subject: Re: GW Micro Announces Support for Java Applications



JAWS has had Java supported for five or six years now.
On Feb 15, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Sunday Ugerdodge wrote:



How about for the JAWS' users?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui"

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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:00 PM
Subject: FW: GW Micro Announces Support for Java Applications




FYI -- This is an exciting breakthrough in access to Java
applications on
the Windows platform.  The Java Access Bridge from Sun is not

needed.

This technology is developed by an expert Java developer who is
blind.
Improvements are ongoing.



Jamal




-----Forwarded Message-----
From: gw-news@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gw-news@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:46 PM
Subject: GW Micro Announces Support for Java Applications



GW Micro is excited to announce support for Java applications
through the
new WE4Java Window-Eyes script, developed by Jay Macarty.



The WE4Java Script Central web page describes WE4Java as a

script

that
"provides access to Java based programs using an alternate
technology from
the Java Access Bridge.  This interface communicates directly

with the

Window-Eyes COM object model via a public API."



WE4Java is designed to send information from Java applications

to

Window-Eyes via the Window-Eyes scripting COM interface.

Because

Window-Eyes is a COM server (meaning other applications can send
information directly to Window-Eyes), the possibilities of

making any

application accessible are endless, regardless of the

programming

language
an application is developed in.



"The Java language is, at times, regarded as being limited in

the

area of
accessibility and not particularly screen reader friendly, "

says

WE4Java
developer, Jay Macarty.  "However, Java actually has one of the

most

powerful accessibility frameworks available built right into the

GUI

components.  WE4Java simply takes advantage of the extreme power

of

the
Window-Eyes scripting facility to expose the Java accessibility
framework
in a new and different way.  We're not re-inventing java
accessibility.
We're simply making it visible as an external Window-Eyes

script.

In other
words, the java access capability was always there.  Window-Eyes
scripting
provided a way to unlock it in a new manner."



You can read more about WE4Java at
Ahttp://www.gwmicro.com/scripts/WE4Java.  If you're using

Window-

Eyes 7.0
or greater, you can download and install WE4Java for immediate
access to
your Java applications.  Once WE4Java is installed, you can read

the

documentation by selecting WE4Java under the Programs section of
the Start
Menu.



Congratulations to all Window-Eyes script developers for all

your

hard
work and contributions.  We are excited about the future that

Window-

Eyes
scripting has to offer.



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