accessability with reguards to java not necessarily linux only but may be useful

[Janina Sajka]

This issue would be appropriate to the Java Accessibility list that Sun hosts:

JAVA-ACCESS at JAVA.SUN.COM

The Sun Java developers, including Peter Korn, monitor and contribute on that list.

Sean McMahon writes:
> Pleasse pass this along to some one who might have more use for it or direct me
> to someone who might have more use.  Yesterday I handed in a program which a gui
> to my instructor and informed him that although there were 6 buttons there were
> 8 calculatable functions he wanted and did not specify the implementation for.
> Inother words there were 2 missing buttons.  Sinse his guidelines were strict
> about the gui implementation,  I informed him of his mistake.  At this point I
> was embarrassed to discover that the functions I needed were to be implemented
> by pressing enter after typing information into the edit field.  No pressing
> enter does not click one of the gui's buttons it performs it's own function
> provide you've defined it in the program which is how this assignment is
> supposed to work.  This is a major problem because java defines the class as an
> edit field and does not require any additional properties for that edit field to
> say whether you can hit enter and invoke a function or not.  It does have an
> editable property fore fields which you can not edit .  I think those of us who
> program should get a hold of those who develop java and request the change in
> implementation so a screen reader can see whether the edit field is one which
> also acts like a button or just a plane old text field.  My question for any of
> you is how do we go about making this change and who do we inform?
> 
> Write to me privately if you'd rather not clog up this list.
> Sean  PS.  when I finnish the code I can send to anyone who wants it so you can
> see what I'm talking about.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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