No, not to run it, but to author the application. Authoring tools matter because different tools yield different results in terms of accessibility. On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote: > If java was to be so universal, why do you seem to need these proprietary > programs to run it? We are still stuck with the OS the program was made > for, like microsoft virtual machine only runs in windows, sun's in unix, etc. > At 09:43 AM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote: > >I guess my point is that we should start tracking what JAVA tools are > >being used to create the applications we're interested in. There's a > >difference among the various JAVA development tools. The ones we'd like to > >tap into, imho, are those from Sun, because they are disigned, explicitly > >and specifically, with disability in mind. > > > > > >On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Kirk Wood wrote: > > > >> I would not bet that Dialpad might work on Linux, but not with any of the > >> text based browsers. The catch is that the service uses a Java based > >> program. > >> > >> As for it being inherantly gui based, Java is definately not. In fact, IBM > >> has done quite a bit of work with speech access in Java. If memory serves > >> correctly, they even have a screen reader based entirely on Java. The > >> catch is that it must run in a virtual machine. It is possible to install > >> the Sun VM without having X on your system. In fact, apache has some Java > >> support. > >> > >> > > > >-- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Information Systems Research & Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > >janina at afb.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
