- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:18:10 -0400
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> To: "Java Accessibility interest mailing list" <JAVA-ACCESS@JAVA.SUN.COM>; <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:05 AM Subject: Library Provides Java Access via ncurses The following showed up some time ago on the blind linux list and may well be of interest to folks not subscribed to that list. Long live ncurses! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hans Zoebelein <hzo@gmx.de> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 10:38:55 +0200 From: Rob Pitman <rob.pitman@icon.co.za> To: hzo@gmx.de Subject: New software that might be of use to visually impaired users Hi, I came across your "BLINUX FAQ" on the Net, and I would like to tell you about some software that may be of use to visually impaired computer users. I have written and published a library package which allows a Java application to display a "graphical" user interface on a text terminal (such as a VT100). The library contains most of the commonly-used "widgets" such as TextFields, Buttons, Labels, Dialogs, Lists, Tables, etc. The library has an API based on that of the Java Foundation Classes (i.e. AWT and "Swing" classes), and uses the GNU ncurses library to do the updating of the terminal. Actually I didn't develop the library with blind users in mind, but because the Java programming language did not have any interface to "legacy" text-based terminals. But I have since discovered that visually-impaired users can interface relatively easily with text-based terminals. If my software can help them in some way, so much the better. It could conceivably be useful in displaying Web pages or running Java applets. I have published the software under the GNU LGPL licence, (i.e. it is free). Further information and the source code, screenshots and a test program are available at http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva Yours sincerely Rob Pitman rob@pitman.co.za Irene Centurion South Africa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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