Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)

[Peter Parente]

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.