Re: more on gnopernicus-0.7.1

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Mario,

> > You mentioned you can not do much with Gnopernicus 0.7.1. There are quite a
> > few things you can use gnopernicus for, and there are many things you can
> > not do with gnopernicus yet.
> >
> > 1. If you get and setup the java access bridge, and openoffice 1.1.1 from
> > openoffice.org
> > you will be able to get some use out of openoffice.
>
> What does I have to do to receive an accessibility enabled OpenOffice.org?
> Does I have to recompile it or how do I setup the java access bridge?
> ATM I use Debian GNU/Linux unstable with gnopernicus 0.7.1 and GNOME 2.4.0.
> Perhaps I'll try GNOME 2.6 with gnopernicus 0.8.4 from experimental.

I'm not sure where this is fully documented (alas)...  It probably belongs in 
the Accessibility Guide for GNOME.  You need to modify the 
accessibility.properties file of your Sun JRE/JDK (see 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/access/properties.html) and also 
ensure your JRE can find the GNOME-Java bridge.  The easiest ways to do this 
are to make two symbolic links:

 ln -s <path-gnome>/gnome-2.6/share/jar/accessibility.properties \
  <path-java>/jre/lib/accessibility.properties

and

 ln -s <path-gnome>/gnome-2.6/share/jar/gnome-java-bridge.jar \
  <path-java>/jre/lib/ext/gnome-java-bridge.jar

Then you need to re-install StarOffice, and assuming your Sun Java is 
installed in the proper place, it will find it, see that it is configured to 
support accessibility, and will automatically use it and speak through 
installation.  Alternately, the program `jvmsetup` (findable on many systems 
in /usr/staroffice7/program) will re-configure StarOffice to use a specific 
JVM of your choosing.  Alas if StarOffice isn't configured to be accessible, 
this program won't be accessible either.  I'm afraid I don't recall the 
StarOffice configuration files that this GUI program modifies...


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team