Re: [orca-list] Java 8 accessibility

[Jann Schneider <jann schneider googlemail com>]

Hello again,

just an update:

I've searched the oracle website again in order to see if they made
any announcements concerning accessibility in Java 8. But
unfortunately i could only find some quite old revs. of the
access-bridge for windows + jdk6 ..

Also i saw the libatk-wrapper-java package and related ones in the
Ubuntu repository. When querrying apt it shows e.g. openjdk 7 as a
dependency. I guess if i try to install the lib it will install / link
to the openjdk 7, not my one in /opt/java/jdk1.8... And i'm not sure
how to copy it or even register it at the jdk 8.
Next step i tried was to build the JAW manually. After cloning from
git and running autogen.sh it complains about somem missing
dependencies. Most of them could be resolved by using apt-file etc. to
lookup the corresponding files to link against.. It requires some
older gtk 2 libs..
The only one i couldn't resolve is the newer version of atk itselve.
Currently i have atk 2.10.x on my Ubuntu but autogen.sh requires atk
> = 2.11
Because i'm not quite sure if this would be the right direction at all
i just wanted to write this new info to you all and see if you could
give me some further hints maybe.

Thanks in advance!
- Jann

2014-11-18 15:39 GMT+01:00, Jann Schneider <jann schneider googlemail com>:
> Hello all!
>
> sorry if this question has been asked before, but i couldn't find
> mails concerning this stuff from the orca list.
>
> I'm just a bit confused how to enable accessibility support in Java 8.
> Confused because i don't really understand if i have to install a kind
> of access bridge like on older versions or the java-atk-wrapper or
> something totally different :-)
> Well, i know JavaFX is quite another issue but i believe there is a
> solution to get pure awt / swing applications like e.g. jvisualvm to
> work with orca.
>
> I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04 with orca from the repository - not
> from git.
>
> Any help would be greatly appriciated!
>
> Thanks in advance
> - Jann