SimpleExample.java

This example looks at TitleBorders (TB). What I found has been interesting. I modified the file SimpleExample.java, and created a button group, with radio buttobns in a JPanel, and added a TB as follows:

TitledBorder tb = new TitledBorder(BorderFactory.createEtched Border(), "More Colors to Choose", TitledBorder.LEFT, TitledBorder.BELOW_TOP, new Font ("SanSerif", Font.PLAIN, 18));

After adding all the radio buttons to both the button group and to the JPanel, I also "added" the TB using something like:

"JPanel.setBorder(TB)"

Now, when I use Explorer to look at this java application, some interesting things happen.

1. visually, the TB looks/acts/is the label for the button group
   
2. if I place the mouse over a radio button in the JPanel, and query using Explorer, the TB title string (e.g., "More Colors to Choose") shows up as the *AccessibleParent's Name*.
   
3. if I place the mouse over the JPanel, and query using Explorer, the TB title string (e.g., "More Colors to Choose") shows up as the *Accessible Name* of the JPanel.

Either situation #2 or #3 is great, as an assistive technology could actually find and speak, or whatever, the TB title string.

I then opened up the SwingSet demo., and took a quick look at the Radio Button Panel, since that also has several TBs, and I couldn't get any information from them. After debugging a while, I looked at the source code for both TitledBorder, and also at CompoundBorder, which is what the SwingSet uses on these radio button groups, and I think I've found the problem.

If you trace through TitledBorder, you eventually find where the title string is handled, with a line like:

g.drawString(getTitle(), etc...), which leaves the title string as TEXT.

If you trace through CompoundBorder, you can't find this same method, only references to:

outsideBorder.paintBorder(...), which I think creates a GRAPHIC versus TEXT?