Accessibility

J2SE 1.4.0 offers new support for accessibility in the following areas:

• Mnemonic tab navigation on a JTabbedPane

• Text editing by assistive technologies

• Accessibility of HTML components

• Accessibility of Swing Actions

• List navigation by using the first letter of list items

• Component roles DATE_EDITOR, FONT_CHOOSER, GROUP_BOX, SPIN_BOX, STATUS_BAR

• Properties to indicate the presence of a screen magnifier or screen reader, or to specify assistive technologies to load into the Java virtual machine

For more information, see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/access/index.html.