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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:44:20 -0600
From: David Andrews <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Fwd: Java Access Bridge 1.0 released!]
The Sun Accessibility team is delighted to announce the availability of:
- Version 1.0 Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating
system, which allows existing assistive technology products such
as
screen readers and screen magnifiers for the Microsoft Windows
operating system to provide access to Java applets and
applications
which support the Java Accessibility API.
>
>
> Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> The Java Access Bridge is a technology which allows native assistive
> technologies (such as screen readers, magnifiers, etc.) to make use
> of the Java Accessibility API in the JFC and JDK, and thereby
>provide
> access to Java applications and applets.
>
The Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system
consists of a pair of Windows DLLs (dynamic link libraries), and a
Java language classfile, which together make a bridge for the Java
Accessibility API between the Java virtual machine and the Microsoft
Windows host platform. Several vendors of assistive technologies
> for Windows 95 and Windows NT have announced support for the Java
> Access Bridge in their products.
>
> The Java Access Bridge includes an installer, which will install
>both
> the Java Access Bridge, and the appropriate Java Accessibility
> Utilities, into the Java virtual machines under Windows 95, 98, NT,
> and Windows 2000. This release of the Java Access Bridge supports
> JDK 1.1.8 with Swing/JFC 1.1 and greater, Java 2 SDK 1.2.2, and Java
>2
> SDK 1.3 Beta 1, as well as the Java Plugin versions 1.2.2 and
> 1.3 Beta 1.
The Java Access Bridge may be redistributed by Assistive Technology
Vendors royalty free (please read the license agreement contained in
the package for terms and conditions).
The Java Access Bridge for the Microsoft Windows operating system is
described at, and can be downloaded from:
http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge
We actively welcome your comments on our releases - please tell us what
you think of them, whether or not they meet your needs, and how we can
make
them better. Send your comments to the Sun Accessibility team at
<[log in to unmask]>, or share your comments with others interested in Java
Accessibility by joining the Java Accessibility mailing list,
<[log in to unmask]>. (To join, send a message to
<[log in to unmask]> and put "subscribe java-access" in the body of
the message).
f you have any trouble downloading these or any other Java technology
from
Sun that you are interested in, please send mail to the Sun
Accessibility
team at <[log in to unmask]>. We can make those technologies available to
you
via our private ftp site that has no known compatibility problems with
any
text-based browser, or any graphical browser when used with a screen
reader.
On behalf of Sun Microsystems,
arl Johnson, Peter Korn, Lynn Monsanto, and Jeff Dunn
Sun Microsystems Accessibility team
[log in to unmask]
http://www.sun.com/access
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