Accessibility
ArticlesArticles in this section provide a great high level overview of activities and technologies aimed at various aspects of Sun's accessibility efforts. November 03, 2004 Sun Demos Accessibility for Open-Source SystemsHighlights of Sun activities at the 2004 Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase (IDEAS) conference in Washington. April 12, 2003 Accessibility and the Swing SetThis article explains what accessibility is, shows how accessibility is implemented in the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), and describes how easy it is to build accessible applications using Swing components. March, 2002 GNOME Technology OverviewThis article provides a technical overview of the GNOME features that will help Sun Microsystems to deliver a leading open desktop platform for many high-quality applications with diverse requirements and, at the same time, provide a fertile environment for innovators. October 30, 2000 What's New with AccessibilityA look at how extensions to accessibility support in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Version 1.3, along with some new tools, give developers more flexibility in making user interfaces accessible to people with disabilities. March 26, 2000 Pushing the 'Net for accessSFGate.com article on Internet accessibility for people with disabilities. April, 1999 Zooming In On AccessibilityA journey from the big picture issues to the programming particulars of Java Accessibility APIs March 09, 1999 Activists Open Java to the DisabledWhen the Java programming language was still in its infancy in 1996, Sun Microsystems engineer Earl Johnson understood that it was time to make noise about assuring Java's accessible to persons with disabilities. | |
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