Hello Rick and list, It's my understanding that JAVA-based applications require three conditions to run accessibly: The application developer needs to have designed in some accessibility features, including keyboard shortcuts. The user needs to have visited sun.com and installed the latest JAVA Access Bridge, which passes information from the application to the screenreader. Finally: The screenreader needs to be one with which JAVA Access Bridge can communicate. When all three of these conditions are met, such as is possible in the Open Office word processor, most things work. I know that both JAWS and NVDA work with Open Office, so long as the Open Office accessibility features are enabled. It's my understanding that Window-Eyes is not designed to communicate with JAVA Access Bridge. That's why Window-Eyes won't read the line to which one moves in Open Office. However, that's not much of a limitation in practice, as few JAVA applications are designed to work with the Access Bridge, and those that are do so pretty incompletely.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Boggess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:01 PM Subject: Window-Eyes and JAVA based applications In our school system, we are getting ready to move to a web-based studetn recordkeeping system called Infinite Campus. I was told I would have to have Adobe Reader 8 and JAVA on my computer. I have access to Window-Eyes 7. Is it likely to work with Window-Eyes? Rick Boggess If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
