Working With JavaHelp
JavaHelp works quite well in the JAWS environment.
Since help files that have screen shots can be very large, you will want to keep the help.jar file separate. This way the user can download the help and will not need to download that large file again until you actually change the help.
The following shows some code to access the help file.
I have been using ExpertHelp - a $40 tool written in Java that comes with source code. It is not great, but it does the job. www.calcom.de