I think I asked Abhishek to take a look.
-phil.
On 2/10/25 2:41 PM, David Alayachew wrote:
Poke.
Any new info?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 8:05 AM David Alayachew
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Phil,
Did you get any more info about this issue?
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 11:58 AM David Alayachew
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Phil.
Yeah, I am A-OK as long as this something that is looked into
and the JBS Bug Report is updated with the findings. If this
isn't too bad, this would be a solid inclusion. But if it's
not worth the effort, I just want the JBS to be updated, and
then I can put that as an answer for my StackOverflow post.
Thanks again for taking a look into this.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:56 AM Philip Race
<[email protected]> wrote:
Perhaps .. if it is an easy fix but I do not know the
specifics and the evaluator of that bug wrote
"the magnifier cannot receive PropertyChangeEvents from
Swing. This is a limitation in the Window magnifier.
The Windows magnifier could be modified by Microsoft to
receive such events but the work would need to be done by
Microsoft."
then went on to add that other magnifiers do work ..
I also don't know how tied in this would be to
implementing support for the Windows Accessibility API.
Swing apps today use something called JavaAccessBridge and
there are screen readers out there that support it.
It would be good to have another look at this specific
issue, but I can't make any promises.
-phil.
On 12/15/24 1:04 PM, David Alayachew wrote:
Hello Client Libs Dev Team,
My eyesite has started to deteriorate significantly, so I
have been using the built-in Accessibility tool called
Windows (Screen) Magnifier (available since Windows XP at
least). It zooms in and out of the screen by pressing the
Windows Key and (+) or (-).
This works great because, as I type stuff, the magnifier
will follow my text, so that I don't have to keep
manually moving the magnifier whenever what I type
inevitably ends up off-screen (off-view?).
This feature works great for basically every other
application I have, except my Swing apps. I make a lot of
Swing apps, and I use a bunch too. And this Magnifier
feature that follows text does not work for any of the
ones I have tried.
This feature does work on basically every other
application I have. To name a few.
* Notepad++
* WordPad
* Firefox
* Git Bash
Here is a Bug Report referring to this problem.
https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-5079680
The resolution was listed as "Future Project". Any chance
that the future can be now?
I know that Swing is largely in maintenance mode, but if
this were to get added, practically ALL Swing apps would
receive a significant boost in accessibility. I think
that's worth making some significant changes for.
Finally, here is a StackOverflow post I made discussing
the same subject.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79281778
Thank you for your time.
David Alayachew
