[BRLTTY] no more java --but no install either!

[Peter Korn]

Hi Hans,

FYI - OpenOffice.org uses Java for accessibility on Windows because when 
we began making OpenOffice.org accessible in 2000 there was no 
accessibility API on Windows with sufficient richness to convey all of 
the information in the content region we needed to convey other than the 
Java Accessibility API.  That isn't the case on UNIX or Macintosh (and 
so OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta for Mac now uses the Macintosh accessibility 
API).  Now that the iAccessible2 interface for Windows is gaining 
traction [in large measure because of its use in Lotus Symphony which is 
a fork of OpenOffice.org version 1.9; as well as support in Mozilla and 
Eclipse], we are working on moving away from using the Java Access 
Bridge and over to iAccessible2 for OpenOffice.org on Windows as well.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> Hello guys,
>
> Thanks for the ample replies-- at least we can give
> java the heave-ho now without a bad conscience
> (funny that openoffice is so differently implemented
> across platforms; I know for a fact that assistive technology
> is entirely java dependent for the M$ version; without, for example,
> access-bridge, none of the frames within write can be reached.).
>
> But present concerns...
> I did get hold of the svs version 3.10 and, unfortunately,
> results were identical to general release 3.9: run-brltty fires
> up, yet brltty sec can't access the braille terminal.
> when trying Dave's suggestion to install either version
> (after a hefty distclean, I may add) the installation script
> hangs while processing the line:
>
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./..//data/* /etc/brltty
>
> Needs to be killed manually!!
>
> Troubled and Puzzled,
>
> Hans
>
>
>
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