Accerciser 1.8.0
Just 15 minutes a day for better accessibility!

Description
===========

  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
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* 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.


Requirements
============

  On a Red Hat based distro:

    gnome-python2-libwnck >= 2.14
    pygtk2 >= 2.8
    python >= 2.4
    pygtk2-libglade >= 2.8
    at-spi >= 1.7
    gnome-python2 >= 2.12
    glib2 >= 2.10
    GConf2-devel

  On a Debian based distro:

    python-gnome2-desktop >= 2.14
    python-gnome2 >= 2.14
    python-gtk2 >= 2.8
    python-glade2 >= 2.8
    python >= 2.4
    python-pyatspi
    at-spi >= 1.7
    libgconf2-dev
    
  To use the Python console plugin, you must hve IPython installed.

  Make sure accessibility is enabled for your GNOME desktop:

    gconftool-2 -s -t boolean /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
  
Installing
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  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
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  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.