Configuring JDeveloper for Accessibility

It is fairly simple to configure JDeveloper for accessibility once you know how to do it.

You will need a copy of the AccessBridge for Windows version 2.0.1 or later.

 

Download the accessBridge .exe file from the above site and save it to a convenient place on your harddrive. From within Windows Explorer, run AccessBridge-2_0_1.exe which runs its automatic installer. Don't be surprised if this takes quite a while.

 

When the installer is complete, you should double-check your JDeveloper installation to make sure it was properly configured.

 

In Windows Explorer, go to the folder where you installed JDeveloper (c:\fmw\jdev assuming you didn't change the silent.xml file I have posted). Inside of this folder there is another folder jdk160_14_r27.6.5-32 which is the included jdk for JDeveloper expand this folder then the jre/lib folder inside of it.

 

In the lib folder there should be a file named accessibility.properties and a folder named ext.

Inside of the ext folder should be the following 2 jar files:

Access-bridge.jar nad jaccess-1_4.jar along with some other jar files.

 

Providing that these files exist, you are all set. If they do not exist, they can be copied from:

 

C:\program files\java access bridge\installerfiles

 

Now from within Windows Explorer you can run:

C:\fmw\jdev\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\jdevw.exe to launch JDeveloper.

There are a few special things that happen on the first run of the program, but that will be in my next post.