3.42.0 Just 15 minutes a day for better accessibility!

Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI2 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.

• Based in at-spi2

  Accerciser uses the new dbus-based accessiblity framework.

• Plugin architecture

  Create a Python module, drop it in a folder, and have it load as a plugin pane with full access to AT-SPI2 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-SPI2 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.

As Accerciser uses pygobject, you'll need to have the following libraries:

  gobject-introspection
  python-gobject >= 2.90.3
  gtk+3 >= 3.24.0

On a Red Hat based distro:

  python >= 3.2
  pyatspi >= 1.9.0
  at-spi2-core >= 2.5.2
  glib2 >= 2.10
  pygobject
  python3-dbus
  appstream-glib-devel
  yelp-tools

On a Debian based distro:

  meson
  pkg-config
  gettext
  yelp-tools
  appstreamcli
  libgtk-3-dev
  python3
  python3-dbus
  python-gi-dev
  python3-pyatspi >= 1.9.0
  libatspi2.0-dev >= 2.1.5

To use the Python console plugin, you must hve IPython installed.

Make sure accessibility is enabled for your GNOME desktop:

  gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility

  meson setup _build .
  meson compile -C _build
  sudo meson install -C _build

Type accerciser at the prompt or choose the Accerciser item from the Programming menu in GNOME.

See the Help menu in the program GUI.

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