Re: Java IDE Accessibility
Hi, so yes from my understanding, with the right setup, IntelliJ is accessible. I am actually going to be learning how to setup NVDA to work with IntelliJ tomorrow. JAWS does not work well with IntelliJ, you have to use NVDA. I am working on transitioning from Eclipse to IntelliJ because Eclipse is becoming Divest internally in my company. There is a blind developer who works at my company who uses IntelliJ with NVDA, and is scheduled to meet with me tomorrow to talk about this.
The jist of it is from my understanding is that you should first be using the NVDA Eloquence addon. I am not certain that this matters, although in my previous experience playing with IntelliJ, using IntelliJ with NVDA without Eloquence seems to raise a bunch of other accessibility issues.
The second thing is you have to enable the java access bridge for the JDK that IntelliJ is using. If you have more questions about how to do this, let me know.
The third thing is that there is an add on for IntelliJ, although I am not sure which yet. I think it is this:
https://github.com/SamKacer/IntelliJ_NVDA_Addon
The add on I am talking about was built internally by an employee of my company, JPMorgan Chase, but I was told that the code was made publicly available. I can update this thread tomorrow when I know more for sure. I had tried an addon for IntelliJ, but had some issues with it, and it just did not seem to work. I am not sure if the addon I linked to is the one I tried.
As an alternative, you can use Eclipse for Java development. Both JAWS and NVDA work with Eclipse pretty well out of the box, although NVDA plus the NVDA eclipse addon is definitely the best experience. This is how I have been working. Here is the link to the NVDA Eclipse addon:
https://github.com/albzan/eclipse-nvda
I have posted a couple times on this form about using eclipse with NVDA. Here is the last thread on this topic that I posted on:
https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/3933 … ccessible/
Hope this helps,
Timothy Breitenfeldt
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