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BTW, the reason why the Java Access Bridge is a separate thing on Windows, as opposed to AWT just directly implementing the platform accessibility API, is an in
by mwcampbell 4y ago
BTW, the reason why the Java Access Bridge is a separate thing on Windows, as opposed to AWT just directly implementing the platform accessibility API, is an interesting bit of history. Basically, in the late 90s, Microsoft's accessibility API was way too simplistic. Maybe I can talk about that in some detail if you ever get your podcast going and we talk about accessibility there.