[nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem

Sun Aug 25 17:41:20 UTC 2013

Is it necessary to unimstall the accessbridge preinstalled in java 7?

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On Aug 25, 2013, at 1:04 PM, "Nicole Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:

> Yes, and change the path variable to point there instead of to the one in
> program files. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Currin, Kevin
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:54 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem
> 
> The version of Java that I have installed is version 1.7.0_17, but Matlab
> has its own version of Java which is 1.6. I found some instructions that
> said I may have to manually install the version of java access bridge that
> works with version 1.6. Is this necessary? If it is, do I copy the files
> into the Java folders within Matlab? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
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> From: nfbcs [nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Nicole Torcolini
> [ntorcolini at wavecable.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 5:34 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem
> 
> C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin It points
> to the directory, not the file.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Currin, Kevin
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 1:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem
> 
> I'm using windows 7 64.
> 
> Should my environment variable look like:
> C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\bin;C:\Program
> Files\Java\jre7\bin\jabswitch.exe (I'm still a bit inexperienced with
> setting environment variables).
> 
> Do I need to do something else besides set the environment variable to
> activate the jabswitch? I saw something on the oracle site about using a
> command line command to activate jabswitch. Is this necessary or should it
> already be activated?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
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> From: nfbcs [nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Nicole Torcolini
> [ntorcolini at wavecable.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 3:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem
> 
> If you are using the JAB switch, then you should not have to move things
> around, but you do have to make sure that the path variable is set. Moving
> things around when you are using the JAB switch often just breaks things to
> the point that you have to remove everything and start from scratch.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Doug Lee
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Matlab accessibility problem
> 
> My experience with JAWS and Java says that you have to be careful that you
> are installing accessibility support in the correct Java runtime
> environment, or JRE. Sometimes you can end up with several of those
> installed. Usually they end up under Program Files\Java and have names
> starting with JRE, but I've seen them end up in other places sometimes too,
> notably for Oracle runtimes but perhaps not only for those. The safest bet
> is probably to make sure the accessibility stuff is set up in all JRE
> folders you find.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 06:46:52PM +0000, Currin, Kevin wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am taking a course that requires matlab. In class the other day, we all
> installed Matlab using CDs. However, I found out that extra steps are needed
> to make Matlab accessible with jaws. I found these here:
> http://www.kxcad.net/cae_MATLAB/techdoc/matlab_env/bqwp009-1.html
> These instructions say that the CD installation of Matlab edits the correct
> environment variable and turns on the Java access bridge. The only steps
> after this were to create an accessibility.properties file and move it into
> the correct folder in the Matlab package. I did this, and I still cannot get
> jaws to work with Matlab.
> 
> The main problem that I can think of is that we tried installing Matlab
> through one CD, and failed. We then used another CD, so there were multiple
> partial installations before a complete installation was achieved. I'm
> thinking that this may have altered the environment variable. The variable
> currently looks like this:
> C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2013a\runtime\win64;C:\Program
> Files\MATLAB\R2013a\bin;
> 
> Does this look out of the ordinary?
> 
> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I am using Matlab 13a, windows 7, and jaws 12.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
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