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This page describes some useful techniques and tools to test your Eclipse application for accessibility issues.

Colours

Switch to High Contrast mode. We support Windows XP High Contrast at 1152 x 764 as our test platform but others should be tested as well.
Test with stock themes. If you cannot get a good colour setup with them also test with reduced palette.

Fonts

Switch to High Contrast Mode as above.
Use large fonts and extra large fonts
Turn up monitor resoltion and lower DPI

Accessible Listeners

Many people test for accessibility using a commercial tool such as Window Eyes or JAWs. Any failures with these tools should be verified using something that calls the MSAA API (on Windows) such as inspect32.

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