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Bug 445551

Summary:	Eclipse must support the U.S. 508 Refresh for accessibility
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Rich Schwerdtfeger <schwer>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Arun Thondapu <arunkumar.thondapu>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	arunkumar.thondapu, daniel_megert, lshanmug, lufimtse, stephen.francisco
Version:	4.5
Target Milestone:	4.5.2+
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	447930, 447934
Bug Blocks:

Description Rich Schwerdtfeger

2014-09-30 16:28:44 EDT

The U.S. Government is releasing a new version of section U.S. 508 (called the U.S 508 Refresh) accessibility procurement requirements criteria. For Eclipse it means that the accessibility interoperability criteria are properly implemented at the accessibility API level. Eclipse has not been formally tested for this although much of the support is now in there with the accessibility api extensions put in place a couple years ago.

Comment 1 Steve Francisco

2014-10-01 18:53:44 EDT

Rich, do you have more details about the work still needing to be done, or bugs that need to be addressed?  This will be necessary information for sizing the effort.

Comment 2 Leo Ufimtsev

2014-10-21 10:12:48 EDT

Hello Rich, 

Do you have links to the requirements criteria? 

I.e, what accessibility functions should the SWT api provide? If we know the list then we can keep it in mind when updating the widgets.

Comment 3 Lakshmi P Shanmugam

2015-05-22 05:02:20 EDT

Moving to 4.5.1 as both the dependent bugs are targeted 4.5.1.

Comment 4 Lakshmi P Shanmugam

2015-09-07 04:05:00 EDT

Arun is working on this item. Moving to 4.5.2.

Comment 5 Arun Thondapu

2017-04-06 14:07:58 EDT

Resolving this as both the dependent bugs have been resolved as fixed.