JAWS screen Reader and JDK1.3

I am having some trouble with the JAWS 4.02 screen reader and an applet running JDK 1.3.1_0. I have the 1.0.2fcs Access bridge installed. Here are some of the problems I am having:
1) JDialog and JFrame titles are not read. Once a dialog is displayed, JAWS only reads "unavailable" and then the first focusable component in the dialog (i.e a JTextField). Also, if you minimize the application, once the window is reactivated, it just reads "unavailable". I have manually set the accessible name of the dialog/frames.
2) JOptionPane dialogs are not read including titles. Nor does it appear that JLabel.setLabelFor is used in JOptionPane. If I use the JOptionPane.showInputDialog, the textfield is just read and not the associated label. Also, labels with simple message dialogs are not read.
3) Only the first row/column value of a JTable is read, regardless of what the selection value is. I tried manually setting the accessibleName via (AccessibleJTable)getAccessibleContext()).getAccessibleAt(i,0).getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleName((String)getValueAt(i,0)) but that then sets every row to be the last value set.
4) Accessible relations arent' read also. If I have a group of JRadioButtons and I set the AccessibleRelation to be a label, only the text next to the radio button is read.
Has anyone had any success with JAWS 4.02 and Swing applications?

Hello Ashley!
The whitepaper http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/education/pdfs/adobe-connect-accessibility -wp.pdf states JAWS 11 as a benchmark.
A much longer and broader thread on Connect & accessibility is at http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=4392. You may want to mine some information and see if it is useful. Unfortunately, a user could not use Connect UI with JAWS. Could be some edge case or a bug.
If and when you use Connect via JAWS, please do share your experience and feedback in this thread.
~Ashish

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