/**
     * Indicates this object allows more than one of its children to
     * be selected at the same time.
     * @see Accessible#getAccessibleContext
     * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleSelection
     * @see AccessibleSelection
     */
    public static final AccessibleState MULTISELECTABLE
            = new AccessibleState("multiselectable");

    /**
     * Indicates this object is the child of an object that allows its
     * children to be selected, and that this child is one of those
     * children that can be selected.
     * @see #SELECTED
     * @see Accessible#getAccessibleContext
     * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleSelection
     * @see AccessibleSelection
     */
    public static final AccessibleState SELECTABLE
            = new AccessibleState("selectable");

    /**
     * Indicates this object is the child of an object that allows its
     * children to be selected, and that this child is one of those
     * children that has been selected.
     * @see #SELECTABLE
     * @see Accessible#getAccessibleContext
     * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleSelection
     * @see AccessibleSelection
     */
    public static final AccessibleState SELECTED
            = new AccessibleState("selected");

    /**
     * Indicates this object, the object's parent, the object's parent's
     * parent, and so on, are all visible.  Note that this does not 
     * necessarily mean the object is painted on the screen.  It might
     * be occluded by some other showing object.
     * @see #VISIBLE
     */
    public static final AccessibleState SHOWING
            = new AccessibleState("showing");

    /**
     * Indicates this object is visible.  Note: this means that the
     * object intends to be visible; however, it may not in fact be
     * showing on the screen because one of the objects that this object
     * is contained by is not visible.
     * @see #SHOWING
     */
    public static final AccessibleState VISIBLE
            = new AccessibleState("visible");

    /**
     * Indicates the orientation of this object is vertical.  This is
     * usually associated with objects such as scrollbars, sliders, and
     * progress bars.
     * @see #VERTICAL
     * @see AccessibleRole#SCROLL_BAR
     * @see AccessibleRole#SLIDER
     * @see AccessibleRole#PROGRESS_BAR
     */
    public static final AccessibleState VERTICAL
            = new AccessibleState("vertical");

    /**
     * Indicates the orientation of this object is horizontal.  This is
     * usually associated with objects such as scrollbars, sliders, and
     * progress bars.
     * @see #HORIZONTAL
     * @see AccessibleRole#SCROLL_BAR
     * @see AccessibleRole#SLIDER
     * @see AccessibleRole#PROGRESS_BAR
     */
    public static final AccessibleState HORIZONTAL
            = new AccessibleState("horizontal");

    /**
     * Indicates this (text) object can contain only a single line of text
     */
    public static final AccessibleState SINGLE_LINE
            = new AccessibleState("singleline");

    /**
     * Indicates this (text) object can contain multiple lines of text
     */
    public static final AccessibleState MULTI_LINE
            = new AccessibleState("multiline");

    /**
     * Indicates this object is transient.  An assistive technology should
     * not add a PropertyChange listener to an object with transient state,
     * as that object will never generate any events.  Transient objects
     * are typically created to answer Java Accessibility method queries,
     * but otherwise do not remain linked to the underlying object (for
     * example, those objects underneath lists, tables, and trees in Swing,
     * where only one actual UI Component does shared rendering duty for
     * all of the data objects underneath the actual list/table/tree elements).