This page is mainly intended for highlighting the current state of Accessibility in JavaFX and upcoming work.
Accessibility support for JavaFX encompasses three aspects:
- Supporting High Contrast and Theming
- Keyboard Navigation
- Accessibility APIs and Assistive Technology support
High Contrast and Theming:
Theming can be achieved using high contrast style sheet provided with FX runtime. Currently this style sheet has to be loaded manually.You can do this using:
scene.getStylesheets().add("/com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/caspian/highcontrast.css");
This should however be triggered to auto-load when the platform theming is changed. This will require a triggering mechanism from glass.
Keyboard Navigation:
At present most controls can be navigated using keyboard except Charts.
Accessibility API and Assistive Technology support
The accessibility architecture is based on Microsoft UI Automation which helps provide us a
low overhead path to implementation on Windows. The design scales well to NSAccessibility protocol on Mac platform and AT-SPI on Linux.
- Architecture
- Supported Assistive Technologies
- Public APIs
- FX application developer
- Custom Controls developer
- What works today
- Scale it further
- Testing
Overview
Content Tools
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