- From: Michael Cooper <mcooper@cast.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:25:49 -0500
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>, "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
> Actually, this brings up yet another point. Does anyone know the > status of > acessibility of Applets? IBM and Sun were doing some impressive things > with Java accessibilty. > Somebody from IBM or Sun may speak up, but in case they're not monitoring the discussion - Applets have the same capability for accessibility as standalone Java applications do. However, it relies on the Java Accessibility API which is standard in Java 1.2 but is an extension to Java 1.1.x. Java 1.1.x is what most browsers currently have and I don't know if you can configure the Virtual Machines that ship with browsers and aren't standalone to use the Accessibility API. The workaround is for the user to use the Java Plugin, but then the page author must include the applet on the page as a plugin (using EMBED or perhaps OBJECT) instead of as an APPLET which would automatically use the browser's internal Virtual Machine. Hopefully I got that right... Michael
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