>I saw this in a couple of places so Please accept my appologies if it has
>been posted here but as java is one of those things jfw supports and as it
>comes up here from time to time, those who are interested are in for a
>treat. also, if you want more of this type of info, Please join the java
>accessability list.
>Thanks!
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: CSUN trip report: lots of accessible Java applications!
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:42:30 -0800
>From: Peter Korn <peter.korn@SUN.COM>
>Reply-To: Java Accessibility interest mailing list<JAVA-ACCESS@java.sun.com>
>Organization: Sun Microsystems
>To: JAVA-ACCESS@JAVA.SUN.COM
>
>Greetings,
>
>Last week was the annual CSUN Conference on Technology and Persons with
>Disabilities. Accessibility to the Java platform was one of the themes of
>the conference, and there were a number of conference sessions devoted to
>the
>topic, as well as a 3 hour evening session on Java Accessibility hosted by
>Sun Microsystems. Henter-Joyce, Inc. and Sun were showing access to a
>variety of Java applications in their booths and suite. A number of
>mainstream companies showed applications and technologies they were
>developing for the Java platform, and demonstrated access to those
>applications via JAWS and the IBM Self-Voicing-Kit technology. These
>companies included Oracle Corporation, Discover Financial Services, American
>Management Systems, Inc., and Keystone Systems, Inc.
>
>
>The first Java Accessibility presentation was by Earl Johnson of the Sun
>Accessibility team, titled "The Basics of Java(TM) Technology" on Wednesday
>morning. In this presentation, Earl gave a broad overview of the history of
>Sun's development of Java technologies and the Java Accessibility effort.
>The presentation paper can be found at: http://www.sun.com/access/wp-csun00/
>
>The next presentation was from Peter Korn and Jeff Dunn of the Sun
>Accessibility team, titled "The Fundamentals of Java(TM) Platform
>Accessibility" on Thursday afternoon. In this presentation, Peter went into
>depth discussing the support for accessibility built into the Java platform,
>and strategies for fully using that support. Jeff Dunn gave a preview of
>Sun's Accessibility Helper, an application Sun is developing to evaluate how
>well a Java applet or application implements the Java Accessibility API.
>
>On Thursday evening, Sun gave a 3 hour presentation outside of the normal
>conference agenda. Jon Kannegaard, VP of Sun Labs and former head of the
>Java Software division during the initial development of the Java
>Accessibility architecture, lead this presentation. Jon talked about the
>incredible speed with which Java technologies are being adopted by the
>industry (almost 1.18 million registered developers in over 200 countries,
>190 Java partners, over 1,000 Universities teaching courses in Java
>technology, etc.). The remainder of the evening was taken up by
>presentations from Sun's Java Accessibility partners:
>
> - Frank Beier of Oracle Corporation talked about the work Oracle
> is doing to implement the Java Accessibility API on their own EWT
> graphics libraries for the Java platform.
>
> - Glen Gordon and Eric Damery of Henter-Joyce, Inc. then demonstrated
> access to a Java applet built with Oracle's EWT libraries through
> their shipping JAWS for Windows 3.5.
>
> - Andi Snow-Weaver of the IBM Accessibility Center talked about the
> work IBM continues to do with Java Accessibility, and their
> Self-Voicing-Kit technology.
>
> - Marko Pilecky of Discover Financial Services Inc. demonstrated a
> call-center application they have developed entirely with Sun's
> Java Foundation Classes (JFC), which is currently being used by
> 1,500 employees. This application was developed specifically to be
> accessible so that Discover could employ visually impaired associates
> in their call centers, and he demonstrated access to it via IBM's
> Self-Voicing-Kit technology.
>
> - Oliver Small, Elizabeth Brady, and Rekha Kengeri of American
> Management Systems (AMS), Inc. demonstrated Momentum Financials, a
> huge Java application which handles accounts payable, receivables,
> and numerous other financial aspects of an organization. AMS's
> team of eleven programmers implemented the Java Accessibility API
> on a number of custom components, including a fully accessible
> drag-and-drop desktop. Momentum Financials was shown with the JAWS
> for Windows screen reader.
>
> - Mitake Holloman Burts of Keystone Systems, Inc. talked about their
> forthcoming Keystone Library Automation Systems (KLAS), which is
> being developed entirely with the Java Foundation Classes specifically
> in order to support accessibility. Keystone's customers include
> libraries for the blind and visually impaired, and KLAS will be
> used both by employees and library patrons.
>
>
>On Friday and Saturday Dan Clark of Henter-Joyce talked about the new
>features in JAWS for Windows 3.5, specifically showing various Java
>applications. Then in a session on Friday afternoon in their suite, Dan
>held
>an hour-long session on the Java Accessibility support in JAWS for Windows
>3.5, including a step-by-step demonstration of the process of installing
>Sun's Java virtual machine and the Java Access Bridge in order to enable the
>Java Accessibility support.
>
>
>At Sun's booth at CSUN, paper and Braille copies of our papers and handouts
>were available. The booth handout is also available on-line, at:
>http://www.sun.com/access/csun/java-access.html
>
>
>Finally, available for the CSUN show were two articles on the Sun web site
>discussing Java Accessibility. In the front-page article titled "Java™
>Accessibility API Goes to Market: Leading Assistive Technologies Spring to
>Life" (http://java.sun.com/features/2000/03/accessibility.html), Steve
>Meloan
>looks at the year in-review, and the strides we have made since CSUN '99.
>In
>addition to talking about the new Java Access Bridge, Steve describes in
>detail recent additions to the Java Accessibility, and talks about the
>impact
>they will have to users with disabilities. Also on the front page ws the
>article "Bridging the Gap: Java Access Bridge Links Windows-based Assistive
>Technologies to the Java Platform"
>(http://java.sun.com/features/2000/03/accessbridge.html) by Mary Smaragdis.
>This article discusses the Java Access Bridge in detail, and describes how
>products like Henter-Joyce's JAWS for Windows use it to provide access to
>Java applications.
>
>
>
>All in all, it was quite a conference!
>
>
>
>Peter Korn
>Sun Accessibility team
>
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