Bug 46114 - Java Access Bridge no longer works

[Michael Meeks]

On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 12:38 -0700, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> So understand the effort to reduce the Java UNO dependencies and desire to
> move to more robust solutions. But it would appear that current releases of
> Oracle's Java Access Bridge is no longer functioning, so the Accessibility
> "Support assistive technology tools..." check box causes  LibreOffice 3.5.x
> Windows builds to crash.

	That is not good; marked it a most annoying bug. It'd be wonderful to
have a stack-trace from a windows build, but of course - these are not
so easy to create.

> Either need to press on  with the IBM contributed IAcessible2 integration (
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39956 ) to fully eliminate JAB,

	Sure; unfortunately (as yet) the Symphony code-dump is not in a state
where that can be easily extracted for 3.6.

> or roll back and revisit what we've done to ourselves and what Oracle has
> done with the package that is making it incompatible.  

	Sure; that's certainly worth doing. It sounds like it started to fail
in the 3.4 to 3.5 transition - a shame that we only discovered it now.

> Eitherway there is a large class of  disabled LO users  on Windows that have
> been left hanging--and not just users dependent on screen readers like NVDA.

	Yep; it needs fixing. Of course - getting a good stack-trace from a
real live system with NVDA installed, where we can reproduce this is the
first step. I'm struggling with VirtualBox's persistent mangling of it's
own configuration personally so ...

	Hmm,

		Michael.

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