Vad är nytt inom tillgänglighetsfunktioner
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 continues to build on its prior accessibility credentials with several improvements.
3.1. Bättre tangentbordsnavigering
Since GNOME 2.0, it has been possible to focus the GNOME Panel using the key combination Control+Alt+Tab. A user could then use the Tab key to move between items on the panel, except for the notification icons.
Since GNOME 2.24 it is now possible to navigate to a notification icon using only the keyboard.
Keyboard navigation has also been improved in the file manager. Selection of files using the keyboard is now linear rather than rectangular.
3.2. Förbättrade tillgänglighetsfunktioner för möss
GNOME 2.22 introduced special accessibility enhancements for controlling the mouse. These have been further improved in GNOME 2.24:
- mouse accessibility now works with multiscreen setups;
- dwelling can now be enabled by dwelling on a special area of the optional dwelling panel application; and
- the drawing of gestures is now visible on the screen.
3.3. Bättre skärmläsare
GNOME and its partners have worked hard to improve accessibility and screenreading support for both GNOME 2.24 and many popular third party applications.
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.