lsr-0.2.0

["Peter Parente" <parente gmail com>]

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* What is it ?
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Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an extensible assistive technology for people with
disabilities. The design philosophy behind LSR is to provide a core platform
that enables the development of LSR extensions for improving desktop
application accessibility and usability and shields extension developers from
the intricacies of the desktop accessibility architecture.

The primary use of the LSR platform is to give people with visual impairments
access to the GNOME desktop and its business applications (e.g. Firefox,
OpenOffice, Eclipse) using speech, Braille, and screen magnification. The
extensions packaged with the LSR core are intended to meet this end. However,
LSR's rich support for extensions can be used for a variety of other purposes
such as supporting novel input and output devices, improving accessibility for
users with other disabilities, enabling multi-modal access to the GNOME
desktop, and so forth.

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* What's changed ?
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0.2.0
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User interface

* Improvements to GaimPerk
 * Incoming messages, message history review, conversation status
* MetacityPerk for app and desktop switch reporting
* GTerminalPerk for mitigating some a11y problems in gnome-terminal
* Direct support for IBM TTS via pyibmtts
* Support for gnome-speech devices
* Support for Festival speech via gnome-speech
* Support for device fallback (i.e. try preferred, try next, etc.)

Scripting

* Script access to additional common events (state, property, table, etc.)
* Support for event layers (focus, application, background)
* Command line "say" option for testing output
* Script for initial configuration profiles
* Automatic script exception handling and reporting based on user settings

Architecture

* On-demand at-spi event registration
* Refactor of widget adapters (tree, list, table, combobox)
* Default profile configuration support
* Unicode character handling

Documentation

* Workbook pages about extensions that ship with the LSR core
* Draft of script tutorial (to be posted with 0.2.1)

See http://live.gnome.org/LSR/Timeline for planned features

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* Where can I get it ?
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Source code release:
http://live.gnome.org/LSR#downloads

For more information, visit the LSR home page:
http://live.gnome.org/LSR