Speech-Enablement of Eclipse IDE and Eclipse Rich Client Applications Using AspectJ

We present an approach to providing broad-based accessibility to graphical applications by employing the capabilities of the Eclipse development platform and aspect oriented programming (AOP) in a way that leverages the strengths of each. We describe the Eclipse platform and the advantages of AOP and contrast AOP with object oriented programming (OOP). Then, we discuss how to use of Eclipse frameworks and AOP in the design of accessible Eclipse-based applications and share some situations of when to leverage these frameworks and when we do not from the perspective of robustness and efficiency.