Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:25:55AM +0200, Malte Timmermann wrote:
 
> And as a side note: We have a similar "Accessibility=on" issue with
> OpenOffice.org. OOo is not written in Java, but exposes Accessibility
> information via JAA. This means we must launch a Java VM with OOo, which
> is time and memory consuming, so we don't want to do that for all
> people, especially because it's not only about start-up, but also about
> runtime performance - the Java Access Bridge will always collect as much
> data as possible, even when no AT is running.

I thought OO.O eliminated that accessibility dependency on Java quite a long
time ago. I remember reading that it now uses ATK directly.