public Class AccessibleRole

Object is used to alert the user about something.

An AWT component, but nothing else is known about it.

See Also

SWING_COMPONENT, UNKNOWN

Object that can be drawn into and is used to trap events.

See Also

FRAME, GLASS_PANE, LAYERED_PANE

A choice that can be checked or unchecked and provides a separate indicator for the current state.

See Also

PUSH_BUTTON, TOGGLE_BUTTON, RADIO_BUTTON

A specialized pane that lets the user choose a color.

The header for a column of data.

A list of choices the user can select from. Also optionally allows the user to enter a choice of their own.

A DATE_EDITOR is a component that allows users to edit java.util.Date and java.util.Time objects.

An iconified internal frame in a DESKTOP_PANE.

See Also

DESKTOP_PANE, INTERNAL_FRAME

A pane that supports internal frames and iconified versions of those internal frames.

See Also

DESKTOP_ICON, INTERNAL_FRAME

A top level window with title bar and a border. A dialog is similar to a frame, but it has fewer properties and is often used as a secondary window for an application.

See Also

FRAME, WINDOW

A pane that allows the user to navigate through and select the contents of a directory. May be used by a file chooser.

See Also

FILE_CHOOSER

A role indicating the object acts as a formula for calculating a value. An example is a formula in a spreadsheet cell.

Since

1.5

A specialized dialog that displays the files in the directory and lets the user select a file, browse a different directory, or specify a filename. May use the directory pane to show the contents of a directory.

See Also

DIRECTORY_PANE

An object that fills up space in a user interface. It is often used in interfaces to tweak the spacing between components, but serves no other purpose.

A FONT_CHOOSER is a component that lets the user pick various attributes for fonts.

A text footer.

Since

1.5

A top level window with a title bar, border, menu bar, etc. It is often used as the primary window for an application.

See Also

DIALOG, CANVAS, WINDOW

A pane that is guaranteed to be painted on top of all panes beneath it.

See Also

ROOT_PANE, CANVAS

A GROUP_BOX is a simple container that contains a border around it and contains components inside it.

A text header.

Since

1.5

An object containing a collection of Accessibles that together represents HTML content. The child Accessibles would include objects implementing AccessibleText, AccessibleHypertext, AccessibleIcon, and other interfaces.

Since

1.6

See Also

HYPERLINK, AccessibleText, AccessibleHypertext, AccessibleHyperlink, AccessibleIcon

A hypertext anchor.

A small fixed size picture, typically used to decorate components.

A frame-like object that is clipped by a desktop pane. The desktop pane, internal frame, and desktop icon objects are often used to create multiple document interfaces within an application.

See Also

DESKTOP_ICON, DESKTOP_PANE, FRAME

An object used to present an icon or short string in an interface.

A specialized pane that allows its children to be drawn in layers, providing a form of stacking order. This is usually the pane that holds the menu bar as well as the pane that contains most of the visual components in a window.

See Also

GLASS_PANE, ROOT_PANE

An object that presents a list of objects to the user and allows the user to select one or more of them. A list is usually contained within a scroll pane.

See Also

SCROLL_PANE, LIST_ITEM

An object that presents an element in a list. A list is usually contained within a scroll pane.

See Also

SCROLL_PANE, LIST

An object usually found inside a menu bar that contains a list of actions the user can choose from. A menu can have any object as its children, but most often they are menu items, other menus, or rudimentary objects such as radio buttons, check boxes, or separators. For example, an application may have an "Edit" menu that contains menu items for "Cut" and "Paste."

See Also

MENU_BAR, MENU_ITEM, SEPARATOR, RADIO_BUTTON, CHECK_BOX, POPUP_MENU

An object usually drawn at the top of the primary dialog box of an application that contains a list of menus the user can choose from. For example, a menu bar might contain menus for "File," "Edit," and "Help."

See Also

MENU, POPUP_MENU, LAYERED_PANE

An object usually contained in a menu that presents an action the user can choose. For example, the "Cut" menu item in an "Edit" menu would be an action the user can select to cut the selected area of text in a document.

See Also

MENU_BAR, SEPARATOR, POPUP_MENU

A specialized pane whose primary use is inside a DIALOG.

See Also

DIALOG

An object that is a child of a page tab list. Its sole child is the panel that is to be presented to the user when the user selects the page tab from the list of tabs in the page tab list.

See Also

PAGE_TAB_LIST

An object that presents a series of panels (or page tabs), one at a time, through some mechanism provided by the object. The most common mechanism is a list of tabs at the top of the panel. The children of a page tab list are all page tabs.

See Also

PAGE_TAB

A generic container that is often used to group objects.

A text paragraph.

Since

1.5

A text object used for passwords, or other places where the text contents is not shown visibly to the user.

A temporary window that is usually used to offer the user a list of choices, and then hides when the user selects one of those choices.

See Also

MENU, MENU_ITEM

An object used to indicate how much of a task has been completed.

A role indicating the object monitors the progress of some operation.

Since

1.5

An object the user can manipulate to tell the application to do something.

See Also

CHECK_BOX, TOGGLE_BUTTON, RADIO_BUTTON

A specialized check box that will cause other radio buttons in the same group to become unchecked when this one is checked.

See Also

PUSH_BUTTON, TOGGLE_BUTTON, CHECK_BOX

A specialized pane that has a glass pane and a layered pane as its children.

See Also

GLASS_PANE, LAYERED_PANE

The header for a row of data.

A ruler is an object used to measure distance.

Since

1.5

An object usually used to allow a user to incrementally view a large amount of data. Usually used only by a scroll pane.

See Also

SCROLL_PANE

An object that allows a user to incrementally view a large amount of information. Its children can include scroll bars and a viewport.

See Also

SCROLL_BAR, VIEWPORT

An object usually contained in a menu to provide a visual and logical separation of the contents in a menu. For example, the "File" menu of an application might contain menu items for "Open," "Close," and "Exit," and will place a separator between "Close" and "Exit" menu items.

See Also

MENU, MENU_ITEM

An object that allows the user to select from a bounded range. For example, a slider might be used to select a number between 0 and 100.

A SPIN_BOX is a simple spinner component and its main use is for simple numbers.

A specialized panel that presents two other panels at the same time. Between the two panels is a divider the user can manipulate to make one panel larger and the other panel smaller.

A STATUS_BAR is an simple component that can contain multiple labels of status information to the user.

A Swing component, but nothing else is known about it.

See Also

AWT_COMPONENT, UNKNOWN

An object used to present information in terms of rows and columns. An example might include a spreadsheet application.

An object that presents text to the user. The text is usually editable by the user as opposed to a label.

See Also

LABEL

A specialized push button that can be checked or unchecked, but does not provide a separate indicator for the current state.

See Also

PUSH_BUTTON, CHECK_BOX, RADIO_BUTTON

A bar or palette usually composed of push buttons or toggle buttons. It is often used to provide the most frequently used functions for an application.

An object that provides information about another object. The accessibleDescription property of the tool tip is often displayed to the user in a small "help bubble" when the user causes the mouse to hover over the object associated with the tool tip.

An object used to present hierarchical information to the user. The individual nodes in the tree can be collapsed and expanded to provide selective disclosure of the tree's contents.

The object contains some Accessible information, but its role is not known.

See Also

AWT_COMPONENT, SWING_COMPONENT

An object usually used in a scroll pane. It represents the portion of the entire data that the user can see. As the user manipulates the scroll bars, the contents of the viewport can change.

See Also

SCROLL_PANE

A top level window with no title or border.

See Also

FRAME, DIALOG