Re: Netbeans Accessibility on Linux

  • From: BlueScale <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 20:16:49 -0400

Hi,
currently using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.


On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 11:15 -0700, Andreas Stefik wrote:

> Wow, ok, good to know. Which distro of linux are you on?
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:22 AM, BlueScale <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>         I didn't really get to try any part of it.  I opened the
>         program and Orca said "Netbeans Ide inaccessible".  It won't
>         read any aspect of the program.
>         
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>         On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 01:31 -0700, Andreas Stefik wrote:
>         
>         > Once you got it installed, was there anything you
>         > particularly liked/didn't like?
>         > 
>         > Stefik
>         > 
>         > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:00 AM, BlueScale
>         > <bluescale1976@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>         > 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         Hi,
>         >         After doing a bit of research, I found what seems to
>         >         be 2 different packages.  One of them is called
>         >         libaccess-bridge-java.  It is already installed.
>         >         The message I got when I did sudo apt-get nstall
>         >         libaccess-bridge-java was it was set to manually
>         >         install, which I think means it will activate when
>         >         it is needed.  The odd thing is, the other package I
>         >         keep finding is called java-access-bridge.  When I
>         >         try to install this one it says it can't find that
>         >         package.  When reading about the libaccess. package
>         >         the description says it is the java access bridge
>         >         for Gnome.  It sends info from Java apps through the
>         >         at-spi, and that's what Orca uses.  So, I think that
>         >         it is installed, but I am not sure any more lol. 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 05:10 -0400, Jared Stofflett
>         >         wrote: 
>         >         
>         >         > OpenOffice is not written entirely in Java, and often 
> uses other JRE's 
>         >         > then Son's so does not need the java access bridge to be 
> accessible. I 
>         >         > suggest you check to see if the access bridge is 
> installed on your 
>         >         > computer because I doubt it is installed by default on 
> Ubuntu.
>         >         > 
>         >         > BlueScale wrote:
>         >         > > Hi,
>         >         > > I installed Netbeans in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).  When I 
> launched it, it 
>         >         > > was not accessible at all.  I am sure I have the access 
> bridge 
>         >         > > installed because Open Office works.
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