I've heard from friends at Sun, the people who brought you the Java Access Bridge for Windows and GNU/Linux platforms that there has been a Macintosh version in the works.
Since then, though, two major events have changed the landscape: 1. Sun has been acquired by Oracle, a company who, at best, has been lukewarm to accessibility and the Sun powerhouse accessibility team may be starved of funds as Oracle doesn't seem to see it as terribly important. 2. The fellow who, as a volunteer, wrote the newish Window-Eyes Java support code using the very cool GW scripting facility, did so by ignoring the Access Bridge and communicating with the Java VM directly. the GW scripts are profoundly faster than those in JAWS and they include more information in a much more well organized manner. Also, the GW Java is much more stable as the bridge introduced an entire layer of flaky code. I don't know anything about how Macintosh programs communicate with each other but, following the GW lead, I would assume one could build a solution based on the WE scripts as the part that talks to the VM is going to be very similar if not identical. Happy Hacking, cdh On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Hmm, in the windows world, there was a java access bridge that > interfaced between Windows accessibility and Java Swing. Is there > anything like that for the Mac? I wonder how hard it would be to > port. (I am not a good enough programmer to do this right now.) > > Jon > > On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> From poking around it would appear that NeoOffice uses Java swing >> for the user interface and I suspect the Java swing to apple >> accessibility API connections are either not wired up or non- >> existant. I just downloaded NeoOffice and isntalled patch 7 and it >> was still inaccessible. It defaulted to opening up a text processor >> document and nothing I typed was read back to me. >> >> CB >> >> a radix wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I wonder, why is neooffice not accessible? I thought it was >>> a fork of openoffice and even a fork made more for the mac then >>> openoffice. Should it not then be more accesible? >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
