accessibility

[Mario Torre]

It would probably make sense to try doing this together rather than
waiting for things to happen, this way you could use this wonderful
workforce that your community is!

Can you maybe point to bugs and/or share with us specific issues (and
pain points) yet unresolved?

Cheers,
Mario

2013/12/16 Stephen F Northover <steve.x.northover at oracle.com>:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Accessibility has been on and off the radar for OpenJFX for quite a while
> now.  Some preliminary work was done, but a final implementation and API was
> never reached.  Further, the people who were working on it either left the
> company or left to work some place else.  The thing that makes accessibility
> difficult is that it is platform specific, has a big API and touches many
> different component areas.  If you think about it, in the case of a visually
> impaired user, accessibility is presenting a widget system to be navigated
> that is independent of any output.
>
> Although nothing is official, we are looking to deliver accessibility in
> JDK9.  If something is ready earlier, it is possible that it could appear in
> an earlier release.
>
> Thanks for being so patient with us.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 2013-12-15 7:15 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the following question:
>> Does javafx support or plan to support accessibility?
>> Another question is: if it is planned, then for what release?
>>
>>
>



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