In several situations it is highly desirable for assistive technologies to parse and present the raw stream behind a component on the screen (e.g. HTML, bitmap images, MathML). In order for the assistive technology to get at this information in a standard way, we need to introduce a new interface to the javax.accessibility package.

This interface is already a part of the GNOME accessibility API, and will probably be added soon to the UNO (StarOffice) and Netscape accessibility APIs.