Re: [orca-list] Accessibility of java-Based programs

[Elias Oltmanns <eo nebensachen de>]

Hi there,

sneaking into this discussion, let me very briefly introduce myself. As
an experienced GNU/Linux user, I go about my daily business with the
dependable assistence of brltty. I'm rather new to gnome and orca and
I'm most certainly new to everything java related. Since I'm running
Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to try my luck with a java application
(the voip solution jitsi from jitsi.org), I'm very interested in this
discussion. A few observations below:


(2012-11-15) Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas, I did the setup of libaccess-bridge-java, but I still can't
> hear any thing except the title of the swing app.
> I wrote a sample app and started through terminal with the java
> <filename> command. I can't get any thing to work. Happy hacking.

Generally not averse to some coding, I don't know the first thing about
java, unfortunately. Sticking to my app of interest, I seem to have the
same problem as you do. There is something interesting though:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
pts/3_20:22_~% cat /etc/java-6-openjdk/accessibility.properties
#
# The following line specifies the assistive technology classes
# that should be loaded into the Java VM when the AWT is initailized.
# Specify multiple classes by separating them with commas.
# Note: the line below cannot end the file (there must be at
# a minimum a blank line following it).
#
# Doesn't work, see LP: #935296
#assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper
#assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.JavaBridge

pts/3_20:22_~%
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Unfortunately, uncommenting those two lines does not seem to give me any
more access to my java application. Still, it might be worth checking
this file on your system and the effects caused by modifying it.

> On Thursday 15 November 2012 10:50 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
[...]
> > I can't speak for compiling Java ATK Wrapper from scratch but I always
> > just installed it from Ubuntu Software Center. Once I installed it and
> > logged out and back in Java apps just worked. No complex setup too it.

Would this also have been on 12.04 or only on 12.10?

Regards,

Elias