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Creating Accessible Components

How can I support the accessibility framework in new components, so that assistive technologies can automatically learn about them?

You incorporate accessibility support in a new component's class by using the AccessibleRole and AccessibleState classes. Sun's online Java Tutorial provides a good demonstration on how to accomplish this task. Check out this demonstration at http://www.javasoft.com/tutorial/uiswing/misc/access.html.