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leaningtech / cheerpj-meta

Run Java 8 applications, libraries, applets, Java Web Start, and Oracle Forms on the web without legacy plugins.
https://labs.leaningtech.com/cheerpj
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assistive technologies #152

Open PerditionC opened 1 year ago

PerditionC commented 1 year ago

There is no documentation that I can find (or is it not visible to assistive technologies?) how accessibility with external tools is implemented? Specifically, how does a screen reader or other tool interact with a Java program ran through the CheerpJ JVM? Documentation states it implements a "full Java SE runtime", but I see no mention of how it exposes the Java Accessibility API, i.e. the equivalent to Java Access Bridge. The Accessible interface and related support seems implemented and works from Java code, but it is unclear how this is exposed to assistive technologies.

alexp-sssup commented 1 year ago

CheerpJ provides the full Java SE runtime API, including the Accessibility API, as you have correctly pointed out.

The information coming from the Accessibility API is currently not interpreted and converted by CheerpJ to corresponding browser functionalities. This is unfortunate, but we cannot currently dedicate resources to implemented this feature.

CheerpJ is currently undergoing a full re-engineering in preparation for the next major release (CheerpJ 3.0), we may consider implementing this feature as part of this effort.

We’ll update this issue if there’s any movement on this front.