Java Accessibility and Usability Work

Java Accessibility Development in Industry

1. Sun Java Accessibility API
2. Microsoft Active Accessibility for Java
3. Comspec -- A EU TIDE project targeting disabled users, their facilitators and developers in the rehabilitation industry. One goal of the project is to create a set of tools that facilitators can use to make personal communication aids for disabled users without programming.
4. IBM Java Accessibility Work
5. • IBM Guidelines for Writing Accessible Applications Using 100% Pure Java™

The Java Accessibility Projects at Trace

1. Cooperative Java Compatibility Effort Table(s)  -- Looking at the differences between Microsoft's and Sun's approaches to Java Accessibility.
2. Cooperative Java Compatibility Effort Recommendations -- Recommendations for a middle ground between the two solutions.
3. Java Accessibility Preliminary Examination
   • Goals of the Preliminary Examination
   • Full Report Working Draft, V. 2.0 (about 100k)
4. Presentation made at the California State University Northridge (CSUN) Conference, March 1998.
   • Working towards Accessible Java Applications
   • Slides of the presentation

Java Application Accessibility Examples

Please download the instructions (readme.txt) on how to setup your environment for running these examples. Also for a short description of what each example is about, read the text file with the same name as the Java source file.

1. Test.java (download)
   • Test.htm
2. SimpleExample.java (download)
   • SimpleEx.htm
3. SimpleExample2.java (download)
   • SimplEx2.htm
4. SimpleExample3.java (download)
   • SimplEx3.htm
5. Dial.java (download)
   • dial.htm
6. • Additional notes: joptionp.htm

Java Applet Accessibility Examples

1. Freezing marquee text

Java Resources