While not enabled by default, Java Swing has support for accessibility APIs. Unfortunately, only Windows is supported by Java itself, but other operating systems are implemented by the different OSes themselves.

The flag is -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies=<provider>, where some of the platform-specific providers are:

• Linux/Gnome (AT-SPI2): org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper Requires java-atk-wrapper: https://github.com/GNOME/java-atk-wrapper and a hack for adding the ATK library to the path: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni/libatk-wrapper.so /usr/lib - or sorting out the classpath so libatk-wrapper.so is in the path Should work outside Gnome, for the record; I've run it headlessly in matchbox-window-manager in a bare minimum X11 CI environment with Xvfb. KDE has a webdriver built in pyatspi2. It's unfortunately licensed under AGPL, but shows that KDE does work with AT-SPI2 Windows (native shit): com.sun.java.accessibility.AccessBridge Requires %JRE_HOME%\bin\jabswitch -disable Crapple shitOS: Not checked yet

Once enabled, the app can be tested using various testing tools. I was unable to find a solution that supports AT-SPI2^[1], so for my use, I hacked one together with pywinctl^[1], pyautogui^[2], and the adapter pattern to allow for other APIs to just be dropped into the testing framework.

I may make an open-source testing framework based on this concept At Some Point:tm:, but I have no immediate use for it for my personal projects. The amount of testing frameworks using accessibility APIs is fairly high, but the amount that _also_ support AT-SPI2 on Linux is functionally non-existent^[3].