Re: Orca screen reader with java swing application

[Shadyar Khodayari <shadyar81 gmail com>]

Hi. Artem,
I'm Shadyar a java developer a legally blind computer engineer. I have
experience to design and to develop web and desktop applications that
be accessible too. I myself use screen-reader daily in both Linux and
Windows.
If you're working on a accessible application to read by screen
reader, I strongly recommend use swt instead of Swing. Swing has been
discontinued. If you insist on using a Java product non-native GUI,
you can use java-FX. Take a look these project instead of debug a
swing project because I predict, this isn't the last bug of Swing you
run into it.
SWT provides native light weight component for Windows Linux Mac etc.
It's an open-source mature project.
Java-fx is Oracle's later project after Swing that provides components
that usually accessible by default also have additional accessible
properties.

Shadyar Khodayari

On 9/1/22, Artem Semenov via gnome-accessibility-list
<gnome-accessibility-list gnome org> wrote:
> Hi. My name is Artem, I am developing an accessibility IDE based on IntelliJ
> at JetBrains.
> I'm having trouble getting screen reader accessibility of a java swing app
> running with AtkWrapper.
> I see that AtkWrapper has loaded and is working. Internal accessibility
> methods like AccessibleContext.GetAccessibleName() are called, but Orca
> doesn't say anything in the test swing application window.
> I start the application like this:
> ```shell
> ./build/linux-x86_64-server-release/images/jdk/bin/java -cp
> "build/tests:/home/user/dev/gnome/jawbuild/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/lib/java-atk-wrapper.jar"
> -Djava.library.path=/home/user/dev/gnome/jawbuild/lib
> -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper
> -Djavax.accessibility.screen_reader_present=true AccessibleJListTest
> ```
> I'm using ubuntu 20.04 LTS and building AtkWrapper 0.38.0 from source, and
> openJDK 17.
> Can you please tell me if this is a known issue or am I doing something
> wrong?
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