Orca [Fwd: Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

This might be of interest to people as a potential accessible 
replacement for at-poke.  I haven't tried it out yet.  I think the only 
restriction right now is that you will need to pull it from LSR.  Pete 
tells me the LSR dependencies are minimal (mostly just the thin veneer 
on top of the AT-SPI IDL stuff like we have in Orca) and they plan on 
eventually moving this into its own GNOME module separate from LSR.

Will

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• From: Peter Parente <parente gmail com>
• To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org, gnome-announce-list gnome org
• Subject: Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)
• Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:58:28 -0500

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, Accerciser is a next generation at-poke tool.

== Features

* 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.

== Authors

Eitan Isaascon (eitan ascender com) is responsible for taking a mock-up from
Peter Parente (parente cs unc edu) and turning it into the wonderful, useful
tool that it is today.

== For more information

Visit the Accerciser web site at http://live.gnome.org/Accerciser.
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