Dialpad

[Janina Sajka]

No, not to run it, but to author the application.

Authoring tools matter because different tools yield different results
in terms of accessibility.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000,
brent harding wrote:

> If java was to be so universal, why do you seem to need these proprietary
> programs to run it? We are still stuck with the OS the program was made
> for, like microsoft virtual machine only runs in windows, sun's in unix, etc.
> At 09:43 AM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I guess my point is that we should start tracking what JAVA tools are
> >being used to create the applications we're interested in. There's a
> >difference among the various JAVA development tools. The ones we'd like to
> >tap into, imho, are those from Sun, because they are disigned, explicitly
> >and specifically, with disability in mind.
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Kirk Wood wrote:
> >
> >> I would not bet that Dialpad might work on Linux, but not with any of the
> >> text based browsers. The catch is that the service uses a Java based
> >> program.
> >> 
> >> As for it being inherantly gui based, Java is definately not. In fact, IBM
> >> has done quite a bit of work with speech access in Java. If memory serves
> >> correctly, they even have a screen reader based entirely on Java. The
> >> catch is that it must run in a virtual machine. It is possible to install
> >> the Sun VM without having X on your system. In fact, apache has some Java
> >> support.
> >> 
> >> 
> >
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> >				Janina Sajka, Director
> >				Information Systems Research & Development
> >				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >
> >janina at afb.net
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net