# Accerciser
3.40.0
Just 15 minutes a day for better accessibility!
## Description
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.
# Features
- 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.
## Requirements
As Accerciser uses pygobject, you'll need to have the following libraries:
```
gobject-introspection
python-gobject >= 2.90.3
gtk+3 >= 3.1.13
```
On a Red Hat based distro:
```
python >= 3.2
pyatspi >= 1.9.0
at-spi2-core >= 2.5.2
glib2 >= 2.10
GConf2-devel
pygobject
appstream-glib-devel
yelp-tools
python3-xlib
```
On a Debian based distro:
```
python >= 2.4
python3-pyatspi >= 1.9.0
at-spi2 >= 2.1.5
libgconf2-dev
python3-gobject
appstream-util
yelp-tools
python3-xlib
```
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
```
## Installing
```
./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
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.