Enhance the accessibility of your GUIs (IBM developerWorks) [LWN.net]

Yannick Saillet covers GUI accessibility issues on IBM's devloperWorks. "One of the main characteristics of the JFC/Swing framework is its ability to use pluggable look-and-feel designs. The same application can be run with different look-and-feel designs without requiring any modification. In this article, Software Engineer Yannick Saillet explains the mechanism behind the Metal look and feel -- one of the standard look and feel designs provided with the J2SE platform -- and demonstrates how to modify it into a universal, customizable look and feel to accommodate special user needs, such as high contrast or large fonts for the visually impaired."

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