Name: wj18071 Date: 10/29/99


AccessibleText, an already implemented interface, provides the
ability to find out information about text in a text component
(e.g. font attribute, text content, font color, etc.) but it
doesn't provide support enabling an assistive technology to
fully interact with the text. What the AccessibleEditableText
interface will do is provide the support that enables assistive
technologies to actually make changes in editable by the user
text.

To be somewhat more specific the interface will allow an
assistive technology to manipulate text in a number of ways.
The following is an extraction of the methods this interface
will provide. Please note that it's a first draft and we have
changes/enhancements already planned.

public interface AccessibleEditableText extends AccessibleText {
 void setTextContents(String s);
 void insertTextAfterIndex(int part, int index);
 void insertTextBeforeIndex(int part, int index);
 void getTextRange(int startIndex, int endIndex);
 void delete(int startIndex, int endIndex);
 void cut(int startIndex, int endIndex);
 void paste(int startIndex);
 void replaceText(int startIndex, int endIndex, String s);
 void selectText(int startIndex, int endIndex); //Acts as a toggle
}

The benefit is greater user control of text thru the assistive
technology (e.g. speech recognition) they are using.
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