Windows Magnifier does not work with my Swing applications

[David Alayachew]

Hello Client Libs Dev Team,

My eyesite has started to deteriorate significantly, so I have been using
the built-in Accessibility tool called Windows (Screen) Magnifier
(available since Windows XP at least). It zooms in and out of the screen by
pressing the Windows Key and (+) or (-).

This works great because, as I type stuff, the magnifier will follow my
text, so that I don't have to keep manually moving the magnifier whenever
what I type inevitably ends up off-screen (off-view?).

This feature works great for basically every other application I have,
except my Swing apps. I make a lot of Swing apps, and I use a bunch too.
And this Magnifier feature that follows text does not work for any of the
ones I have tried.

This feature does work on basically every other application I have. To name
a few.

* Notepad++
* WordPad
* Firefox
* Git Bash

Here is a Bug Report referring to this problem.

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-5079680

The resolution was listed as "Future Project". Any chance that the future
can be now?

I know that Swing is largely in maintenance mode, but if this were to get
added, practically ALL Swing apps would receive a significant boost in
accessibility. I think that's worth making some significant changes for.

Finally, here is a StackOverflow post I made discussing the same subject.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79281778

Thank you for your time.
David Alayachew
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