On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Sean Murphy wrote:
Why cannot the Voice-Over work with the Java libraries? since this
is the model for Java from my understanding to include
accessibility. Even if it does break applications forcing
developers to drop it altogether.
I'm not sure what you're asking here.
Do you mean why won't voiceover work with java programs that use the
graphical methods to write to the screen?
The answer is because when you paint a picture on the screen, it's
just a graphic, because it was painted, there is no longer any text
to be had, so voiceover cannot read what was painted onto the canvas.
Most of the time, the draw/paint routines are simply used to make an
application look a certain way, not because it's needed.
Sighted folks put a lot of stock in how things look, and apparently,
java's wide variety of fonts/layouts just aren't enough to suit some
developers (or they're porting from javascript, or porting an web
applet to a stand-alone java program and don't know better) and as a
result, apps are written that have absolutely no technical reason not
to be accessible, but simply aren't because of the method used to put
text onto the screen.
Nothing voiceover can do when a graphic is involved, so that's why
some java apps aren't accessible, even when there's no reason for it
not to be.
I assure you, I've both used and written completely accessible java
apps on osx, and had no trouble, so don't blame voiceover or java
when someone tells you this or that won't work because it's java,
it's all in the assembly. :)
I.E. how it's put together, (couldn't resist the pun there though)
hth.
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