可用性的新进展

GNOME has a passion for making software available to everyone, including users and developers with impairments that can make it harder to use their computer. To help, GNOME created the GNOME Accessibility Project and an accessibility framework that is now a standard on libre desktops.

GNOME 2.24 通过众多改进继续努力构建它的可用性。

3.1. 更好的键盘导航

从 GNOME 2.0 开始,对 GNOME 面板的组合键 Control+Alt+Tab 便已经可用。用户可以使用在此后使用 Tab 键在面板项目上移动,尤其是通知区域图标。

从 GNOME 2.24 开始,可以通过键盘导航到通知栏图标。

文件管理器中的键盘导航同样得到了改进。现在通过键盘选择是线形的而不是长方形的。

3.2. 改进的鼠标可用性支持

GNOME 2.22 引入了 鼠标控制可用性特别增强。这些在 GNOME 2.24 中被再一次改进了:

  • 现在,鼠标可用性功能可以用在多显示器设置;
  • dwelling can now be enabled by dwelling on a special area of the optional dwelling panel application; and
  • 画出的手势现在会显示在屏幕上。

3.3. 更好的屏幕阅读体验

GNOME 和它的合作伙伴付出了非常多的努力以提高 GNOME 2.24 及众多流行的第三方应用程序的可用性和屏幕阅读支持。

Text-to-speech and braille device support is now vastly improved for Java applications, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin, GNOME's Help Browser and the GNOME Panel. Users are now made aware of unfocused dialogs when switching to an application.

There has also been a lot of work to integrate GNOME's screen reading technology with ARIA-enabled web browsers, starting with Mozilla Firefox.

Also new is automatic selection of the sythesized voice based on the system language, support for verbalized links, echo by sentence and optional tutorial messages.