- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:48:14 -0500
- To: "User Agent Working group list" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Korn" <korn@sun.com> To: <JAVA-ACCESS@JAVA.SUN.COM> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: Java Access Bridge 1.0.2 released; Java Accessibility Helper 0.5 available The Sun Accessibility team is pleased to announce the availability of: - Version 1.0.2 of the Java (TM) Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system, which allows existing assistive technology products such as screen readers and screen magnifiers for the Microsoft Windows operating system to provide access to Java applets and applications which support the Java Accessibility API. This release fixes a few critical bugs, including one that appeared when using JAWS for Windows with Java 2 SDK 1.3. - Version 0.5 of the Java Accessibility Helper, a test tool for Java application developers and testers to help them find and fix accessibility problems with Java applications. This release includes dramatic improvements in usability, based on user feedback, including automatic installation, improved online help, simpler Test Set configuration, and a class path editor. Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system ------------------------------------------------------------- The Java Access Bridge is a technology which allows native assistive technologies (such as screen readers, magnifiers, etc.) to make use of the Java Accessibility API in the Java 2 platform, and thereby provide access to Java applications and applets. The Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system consists of a pair of Windows DLLs (dynamic link libraries), and a Java language classfile, which together make a bridge for the Java Accessibility API between the Java virtual machine and the Microsoft Windows host platform. Several vendors of assistive technologies for Windows 95, 98, 2000 and Windows NT have announced support for the Java Access Bridge in their products. Henter-Joyce supports the Java Access Bridge in their shipping JAWS for Windows screen reader, and Ai Squared supports the Java Access Bridge in their shipping ZoomText Xtra screen magnifier. The Java Access Bridge includes an installer, which will install both the Java Access Bridge, and the appropriate Java Accessibility Utilities, into the Java virtual machines under Windows 95, 98, NT, and Windows 2000. This release of the Java Access Bridge supports JDK 1.1.8 with Swing/JFC 1.1 and greater, Java 2 SDK 1.2.2, and Java 2 SDK 1.3, as well as the Java Plugin versions 1.2.2 and 1.3. The Java Access Bridge also supports the Java Web Start technology. The Java Access Bridge may be redistributed royalty free (please read the license agreement contained in the package for terms and conditions). The Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system is described at, and can be downloaded from: http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge Java Accessibility Helper version 0.5 ------------------------------------- The Java Accessibility Helper is a test tool for Java application developers and testers to help them find and fix accessibility problems with Java applications. The Helper runs in a separate Java VM, and works by exercising the application to be tested via standard Java APIs, and via the Java Accessibility API. The Helper generates a report that includes a prioritized list of problems and potential problems with the application being tested (e.g. verifying that all input fields in an application can be reached using only the keyboard). Version 0.5 includes dramatic improvements in usability, including automatic installation, improved online help, simpler Test Set configuration, and a class path editor. The Java Accessibility Helper development team maintains a special e-mail alias for questions and issue regarding it. Please direct your Java Accessibility Helper e-mails to: jaccesshelper@sun.com To download the Java Accessibility Helper version 0.5, go to the Java Developer Connection Early access page (log in, or establish yourself as a new user if you haven't logged in before): http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jaccesshelper We actively welcome your comments on our releases - please tell us what you think of them, whether or not they meet your needs, and how we can make them better. Send your comments to the Sun Accessibility team at <access@sun.com>, or share your comments with others interested in Java Accessibility by joining the Java Accessibility mailing list, <java-access@javasoft.com>. (To join, send a message to <listserv@javasoft.com> and put "subscribe java-access" in the body of the message). If you have any trouble downloading these or any other Java technology from Sun that you are interested in, please send mail to the Sun Accessibility team at <access@sun.com>. We can make those technologies available to you via our private ftp site that has no known compatibility problems with any text-based browser, or any graphical browser when used with a screen reader. On behalf of Sun Microsystems, Peter Korn Sun Microsystems Accessibility team access@sun.com http://www.sun.com/access ======================================================================== === To unsubscribe, send email to listserv@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA-ACCESS". For general help, send email to listserv@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "help".
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