does that mean orca will die in linux to
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hofstader
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: why is openoffice accessible and neoofficeenot
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,
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