Accerciser is a Python accessibility explorer designed for the GNOME desktop. It is an interactive software that allows users to explore the accessibility features of the GNOME desktop environment.
Notably, Accerciser provides a simple plugin framework that allows you to create custom views of accessibility information. This feature makes it a next-generation at-poke tool, allowing developers to manipulate accessibility information based on their specific needs, enhancing the overall usability of the software application.
Accerciser comes with several key features that make it a must-have tool for software testing and development. The software uses ORBit, not cspi, and is based on the modern LSR and Orca screen readers. The legacy cspi module is avoided, making it compatible with a range of different applications.
Another important feature of Accerciser is its plugin architecture, which allows you to create a Python module and have it load as a plugin pane with full access to AT-SPI and the selected element in the accessibility tree view. This provides you with all the features expected from a poke tool, and then some.
Accerciser also has an IPython console plugin that provides a full, interactive Python shell with access to the accessible object selected in the tree view. This feature makes it incredibly easy for developers to access AT-SPI interfaces, methods, and attributes, as well as any other Python modules.
The API browser plugin shows the interfaces, methods, and attributes available on the selected accessible object. The customizable UI layout allows you to move plugin tabs to different panels or separate windows, allowing you to view them concurrently.
Overall, Accerciser is an invaluable software tool for developers and testers alike. The software is easy to install via svn checkout, autogen.sh, make, and sudo make install. Its inclusion of Yelp documentation makes it easy for users to get started and learn the features that the software has to offer. Finally, Accerciser does not disable its own accessibility, ensuring that users with assistive technologies can use it seamlessly.
Version 1.8.0: N/A