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JAVA ACCESSIBILITY
Version 0.5
08 October 1997

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Welcome to this preliminary release of Java Accessibility. This draft is intended only to give interested individuals an early look at the direction we are heading with Java Accessibility. We encourage you to review this specification and mail your feedback to access@sun.com. We will be aggressively collecting, evaluating, and incorporating feedback from our reviewers throughout the development of Java Accessibility.

The code being released for your review is Early Access Code. Since this is Early Access Code it contains bugs and therefore any shipping products should not be based on this code, due to the fact that the API is still evolving and changes may need to be made prior to the final release.

API LOCATION CHANGES: The Java Accessibility API has been incorporated into the core classes for the Java Development Kit. This caused Java Accessibility to be split into two parts: a core part and a utility part. This release of Java Accessibility contains only the utilities to be used by assistive technologies as well as some examples that use these utilities.The Java Accessibility API itself is now located in the Preliminary Specification for Swing.

JAVA SPEECH API:Those looking for more information on the Java Speech API should refer to the Java Speech page.

RELEASE NOTES(These files are included with the preliminary release)

Overview of Java Accessibility Features

Provides information on the concepts of Java Accessibility along with a description of the core Java Accessibility API interfaces and classes.

Java Accessibility Reference

Reference to packages, classes and members. Generated by javadoc. Please note that this release no longer includes the reference for the Java Accessibility API itself. The Java Accessibility API itself is now located in the Preliminary Specification for Swing.

Java Accessibility Tutorial

Tutorial for assistive technology vendors on how to obtain accessible information from JFC components. NOTE: This is still a work in progress and is currently out of date.

Java Accessibility Tools

A list of tools that demonstrate using Java Accessibility



WARNING: Do not base products on this release of Java Accessibility! We reserve the right to modify the specification in future versions.


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