Accerciser 3.5.1pre Just 15 minutes a day for better accessibility!

Description

Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI2 to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a simple plugin framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information.

In essence, Accerciser is a next generation at-poke tool.

Features

• Based in at-spi2

Accerciser uses the new dbus-based accessiblity framework.

• Plugin architecture

Create a Python module, drop it in a folder, and have it load as a plugin pane with full access to AT-SPI2 and the selected element in the accessibility tree view.

• Interface browser and event monitor plugins

All the features you've come to expect from a poke tool, and then some.

• IPython console plugin

A full, interactive Python shell with access to the accessible object selected in the tree view; all AT-SPI2 interfaces, methods and attributes; and any other Python modules. Supports autocompletion and a million other niceties thanks to IPython.

• API browser plugin

Shows the interfaces, methods, and attributes available on the selected accessible object.

• Global hotkeys

Move the tree view quickly to the last focused accessible or the one under the mouse pointer. Insert a marker into the event monitor log for easy identification at a later time.

• Customizable UI layout

Move plugin tabs to different panels or even separate windows to view them concurrently.

• Accessibility!

Accerciser does not disable its own accessibility.

• Yelp documentation

Included in the package.

• Python powered

Brits, not serpents.

Requirements

As Accerciser uses pygobject, you'll need to have the following libraries:

gobject-introspection
python-gobject >= 2.90.3
gtk+3 >= 3.1.13

On a Red Hat based distro:

python >= 2.4
pyatspi >= 1.9.0
at-spi2-core >= 2.1.5
glib2 >= 2.10
GConf2-devel
pygobject

On a Debian based distro:

python >= 2.4
python-pyatspi >= 1.9.0
at-spi2 >= 2.1.5
libgconf2-dev
python-gobject

To use the Python console plugin, you must hve IPython installed.

Make sure accessibility is enabled for your GNOME desktop:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility

Installing

autogen.sh make sudo make install

Running

Type 'accerciser' at the prompt or choose the Accerciser item from the Programming menu in GNOME.

Help

See the Help menu in the program GUI.

Legal

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 IBM Corporation

All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the BSD License which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php.

See COPYING and NOTICE for details.