Accerciser 3.4.1

Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI 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, this project is a next generation at-poke tool.

Here are some key features of "Accerciser":

ORBit, not cspi, based

� Like the modern LSR and Orca screen readers, Accerciser uses pyORBit to talk AT-SPI with other applications. The legacy cspi module is avoided.

Plugin architecture

� Create a Python module, drop it in a folder, and have it load as a plugin pane with full access to AT-SPI 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-SPI 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.

Installation:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/accerciser/trunk/ accerciser
cd accerciser
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
accerciser

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Requirements:

· GTK version 2.8.x
· pygtk
· ipython

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New And Updated Translations:
· Daniel Korosti (uk)
· Rudolfs Mazurs (lv)
· Wolfgang Stöggl (de)
· Aron Xu (zh_CN)