Re: Make an Applet Accessible

  • From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:29:18 -0400

Good evening,
A Clarification needs to be made between Java applications and Java applets. Java applications can be accessible under certain circumstances using the Swing, and more so using the SWT toolkits. However, a Java applet is not a Java application and is, AFAIK viewed by browsers as using AWT components and not Swing components, regardless of which classes one chooses to impleement.
As always I'd love to hear information that corrects this if I am incorrect. 

Thanks,
Everett

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On 20-Oct-09, at 9:55 PM, The Elf wrote:
actually this is incorrect as far as I know, the swing classes must be used, and possibly the swt, Sina would be the best person to ask, since he did the accessible java fruit basket application found at: 
http://FruitBasket.QuantumMyst.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: E.J. Zufelt
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Make an Applet Accessible

Good evening,
To the best of my knowledge it is not possible to make a Java applet accessible to assistive technology as AWT does not implement the accessibility API and AWT is the view which browsers take of UI components in applets, even if the components are intended to be viewed as Swing objects.
I'd be happily corrected on this if someone has experienced an accessible applet. 

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On 20-Oct-09, at 1:36 PM, Homme, James wrote:


Hi,
I don't know the first thing about how to take a Java Applet and make it accessible. Can anyone point me to something that explains how to do this? 
Thanks.
Jim
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