This issue would be appropriate to the Java Accessibility list that Sun hosts: JAVA-ACCESS at JAVA.SUN.COM The Sun Java developers, including Peter Korn, monitor and contribute on that list. Sean McMahon writes: > Pleasse pass this along to some one who might have more use for it or direct me > to someone who might have more use. Yesterday I handed in a program which a gui > to my instructor and informed him that although there were 6 buttons there were > 8 calculatable functions he wanted and did not specify the implementation for. > Inother words there were 2 missing buttons. Sinse his guidelines were strict > about the gui implementation, I informed him of his mistake. At this point I > was embarrassed to discover that the functions I needed were to be implemented > by pressing enter after typing information into the edit field. No pressing > enter does not click one of the gui's buttons it performs it's own function > provide you've defined it in the program which is how this assignment is > supposed to work. This is a major problem because java defines the class as an > edit field and does not require any additional properties for that edit field to > say whether you can hit enter and invoke a function or not. It does have an > editable property fore fields which you can not edit . I think those of us who > program should get a hold of those who develop java and request the change in > implementation so a screen reader can see whether the edit field is one which > also acts like a button or just a plane old text field. My question for any of > you is how do we go about making this change and who do we inform? > > Write to me privately if you'd rather not clog up this list. > Sean PS. when I finnish the code I can send to anyone who wants it so you can > see what I'm talking about. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
