[Malvern] FW: Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)

[Zeth Green]

Cheers Ian, that looks really good. The W3 Validator has really helped
me in the past to make websites, this seems like a similar approach to
Gnome Apps. Seems like a nice Python-based program, I'll give it a go
and let you know how I'll get on.

On 24/02/07, Ian Pascoe <ianpascoe at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi Zeth and all
>
> Thought you'd be interested in this tool following our earlier discussions.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces at gnome.org
> [mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces at gnome.org]On Behalf Of Peter
> Parente
> Sent: 23 February 2007 17:58
> To: gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org;
> gnome-accessibility-devel at gnome.org; gnome-announce-list at gnome.org
> Subject: Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)
>
>
> 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 at ascender.com) is responsible for taking a mock-up from
> Peter Parente (parente at 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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