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Why doesn my old Windows screen reader work with Eclipse 3.6?

April 26, 2017Eclipse reader screen Windows

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Why doesn my old Windows screen reader work with Eclipse 3.6?

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JAWS version 8 and 9 and Window-Eyes version 6 no longer work well with Eclipse and other SWT applications. Window-Eyes 6 will cause Eclipse to crash, and JAWS 8 and 9 can cause SWT applications to crash. The reason is that Eclipse 3.6 added support for IAccessible2, and these older screen reader versions contain a partial implementation of IAccessible2 that does not follow the current IAccessible2 specification.