Isn't Ian's issue the exact reason javax.accessibility exists?
Most of the components in swing, implement the Accessible interface .( http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/javax/accessibility/Accessible.html )
Please correct me if I am wrong, but from my reading of the documentation, Ian is supposed to have an "Assistive Technology" (AT) to use the accessibility features built into the Swing components. It is assumed within Swing that any "well designed" GUI should work. See http://www-3.ibm.com/able/snsjavagjfcacc.html#using.
Clearly this is optimistic, but may be far better that just trying to increase font sizes. I seems that there should be some kind of free tool, somewhere, to help limited sight folks get a better view of Swing GUIs. It sounds like the simplest kind of Assistive Technology.
In a few minutes of searching, I have been unable to find any default or "free" Assistive Technologies that ship with the Java 2 JDK or run-time environment, but that does not mean they don't exist. Ian, perhaps you should do a through search.
Charlweed
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:35 PM
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Subject: Re: PLAFs
At 04:58 PM 2/14/2002, Ian Sharpe wrote:
>Thanks Dmitry, that's saved me a lot of wasted time but was not the answer
>I was really looking for. :-(
I should've included the following too:
Create a file named swing.properties in directory %JAVA_HOME%/lib with line:
swing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
This will force all apps that don't explicitly set the look and feel to use
the system L&F.
Cheers
Dmitry
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