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Limelight applications are not accessible

#163

I don't know where you'd even start to make Limelight apps accessible, but it's going to come up sooner or later. Currently, there's no way for a screen-reader to understand what's happening in the Limelight UI. None of the widgets register as accessible entities. A related bug mentions that text isn't even selectable. In order for many companies to consider using Limelight for real applications, accessibility will have to be addressed.

Reported by Charles Oliver Nutter · October 30th, 2009 @ 12:59 PM

State: new
Milestone: Limelight 0.6
Assigned to: nobody

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  1. Micah Martin
    Micah Martin
    • Milestone set to Future

    This is definitely a known short coming of Limelight. Since Limelight does not make use of Swing, it doesn't get the accessibility features for free. But after a cursory look at the Java Accessibility API (http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/accessibility/index.h..., adding accessibility to Limelight should be fairly straight forward.

    October 30th, 2009 @ 05:12 PM

  2. Micah Martin
    Micah Martin
    • Milestone changed from Future to Limelight 0.6

    October 30th, 2009 @ 05:13 PM

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