Hello Sean, I'd argue that there is nothing wrong with Java at all (well not in that respect). What you were asked to do is really just a misuse of the text field metaphor within Java. Being able to hit "return" is a useful shortcut, but it is not a substitute for an "evaluate" or a "go" button alongside. It happens quite a lot of course, usually when people are trying to provide a command-line interface inside the Java GUI, which would be better provided as a command-line based Java application (that way it would work with Speakup...) One way to fix the accessibility issue for your assignment would be to put the "press the return key to execute command" instruction into the ALT text attribute using the Java accessibility layer. It's a "bodge" though, not a proper solution (for one thing, you will hear that text every time the screen reader scans the page). Bob Dodd Special Needs Computing Research Unit, School of Computing, University of Teesside, Tees Valley TS1 3BA United Kingdom --- Sean McMahon <smcmahon at usgs.gov> wrote: > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover
