Re: Java Preferences Configuration accessibility issues for Educational web sites [was Re: Snowleopard How does one Clear the Java Runtime Environment?]

2013-12-06 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Thanks for the thorough explanation. I will save this message in hopes of getting things to work in the near future. I don't know what it is about the education world that makes the planners and doers so in love with problematic technology. I am a tech lover, myself, but there is one over-a

Re: Java Preferences Configuration accessibility issues for Educational web sites [was Re: Snowleopard How does one Clear the Java Runtime Environment?]

2013-12-06 Thread Esther
Hi Martin, Apple has handed Java support back to Oracle. So I suppose the question is what version of Java you need to run in order to support BlackBoard and other educational content. I'm not sure whether your question is about the accessibility issues of using Java Preferences as a VoiceOve

Re: Java Preferences Configuration accessibility issues for Educational web sites [was Re: Snowleopard How does one Clear the Java Runtime Environment?]

2013-12-06 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Thank you very much. I appreciate your answer as several of us as in me and my coworkers have been beating our collective heads over this issue. This probably also means that other platforms are having issues, also. Since java is not an Apple product, I thoroughly understand the situation e

Re: Java Preferences Configuration accessibility issues for Educational web sites [was Re: Snowleopard How does one Clear the Java Runtime Environment?]

2013-12-05 Thread Esther
Hi Dónal, That's a fair enough reply, but it doesn't get Martin out of his problems, since Oracle's Java only runs for OS X 10.7.1 and above, I think. Of course, even though Apple released a Java update for Snow Leopard just this Fall, you could argue that Snow Leopard is an old operating syst

Re: Java Preferences Configuration accessibility issues for Educational web sites [was Re: Snowleopard How does one Clear the Java Runtime Environment?]

2013-12-05 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi ester, and others: I contacted Apple about this and had a rather lengthy exchange with them. The upshot was that Apple are passing the book to Oracle. They maintain, and with a certain justification, that this isn’t their issue at all. Hope this clarifies, Dónal On 5 Dec 2013, at 17:01, E

Java Preferences Configuration accessibility issues for Educational web sites [was Re: Snowleopard How does one Clear the Java Runtime Environment?]

2013-12-05 Thread Esther
Hi Martin, I think you've run up against the accessibility issues in the Java Preferences Utility, which is why you can't find options to clear your temporary files. This issue was discussed on list last year in connection with updates a user had to run to update Blackboard, and that discussio