[gui-talk] jre accessibility acid test software needed

[Jude DaShiell]

On a windows 7 box earlier and with sighted assistance I tried installing 
libreoffice and openoffice at different times and used manual installation 
as documented by Oracle and later used j_win.exe to install 
JavaAccessBridge onto a few different versions of java runtime environment 
one of which was from Sun and the others were from Oracle.  In all cases 
when attempting to enable accessibility in both libreoffice and openoffice 
more than one version of libreoffice and current version of openoffice 
after java support had been turned on I tried enabling support assistive 
technology in accessibility page under options I got back either an 
inferior jre message or a jre is defective message and no accessibility.  
My conclusion is that after Oracle did a hostile merger and acquisition 
operation on Sun, it also broke accessibility features in one or both jre 
and perhaps JavaAccessBridge as well.  For office productivity needs, I 
got lotus symphony downloaded and installed and I couldn't download it 
either since http://www.softpedia.com/ is so inaccessible I had to have 
sighted assistance to do that operation.  This nonetheless brings up 
another question for me and another problem.  Right now, I can't prove 
Java Accessibility works through the Java Access Bridge using either 
openoffice or libreoffice.  Is any other software available which will 
take advantage of java access bridge features and java accessibility 
features built into the jre (preferably without the need to explicitly 
enable accessibility) available for download?  I'd like to find out if 
anything really is working inside jre through Java Access Bridge in terms 
of accessibility.  If it's broken with this software too, then Oracle did 
the dirty deed and there's not much can be done by us lifeboat refugees.  
If it does work, then the fault is in the code base of openoffice and also 
libreoffice which failed to clean it out.  I just like to have effective 
software not defective software running on the windows box, at least 
that's some compensation for having to put up with an inaccessible 
installer situation on every version of windows to have come out of 
Microsoft to date.



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