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package javax.accessibility;
/**
* Interface Accessible is the main interface for the accessibility package.
* All components that support
* the accessibility package must implement this interface.
* It contains a single method, {@link #getAccessibleContext}, which
* returns an instance of the class {@link AccessibleContext}.
*
* @author Peter Korn
* @author Hans Muller
* @author Willie Walker
*/
public interface Accessible {
/**
* Returns the AccessibleContext associated with this object. In most
* cases, the return value should not be null if the object implements
* interface Accessible. If a component developer creates a subclass
* of an object that implements Accessible, and that subclass
* is not Accessible, the developer should override the
* getAccessibleContext method to return null.
*/
public AccessibleContext getAccessibleContext();
}