Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Eitan committed a new plug-in for Accerciser that makes it dirt simple to find basic accessibility problems. You know, the ones that cause grief for apps like Orca, GOK, On-Board, etc. To use it, run Accerciser, point it at part of a GUI, click validate, and wait for the report.
The rules in the plug-in aren’t [...]
For those who read this, I’m not longer working on GNOME accessibility projects for IBM. I’ve been transfered to the QEDWiki project, and may or may not have accessibility duties in the long run, but possibly some in the short term.
Nevertheless, I’m writing up some final documentation on LSR in hope that someone will find [...]
Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME accessibility:http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwerUnder this new plan, IBM is no longer supporting development of LSR, accerciser, pyatspi, AT-SPI::Collection, or Firefox/AT-SPI accessibility. These projects will not vanish, but the news does have an impact on each.AccerciserEitan Isaacson is busy preparing Accerciser for inclusion in GNOME 2.20 under a grant [...]