What's New in Accessibility

Гном жели да софтвер буде доступан свима, укључујући и кориснике и програмере са посебним потребама које им отежавају употребу рачунара. Да би им се помогло, у оквиру Гнома постоји Гномов пројекат приступачности и оквир за приступачност који је данас стандард на слободном радном окружењу.

GNOME 2.30 continues to build on its prior accessibility credentials with several improvements.

4.1. Orca Screen Reader

The Orca screen reader has had significant work done to reduce program bugs and improve performance, with over 160 bugs fixed for GNOME 2.30. Some of the improvements include:

  • The preferences user interface has been updated to improve Orca on netbooks.
  • You can now run orca --replace to start a new Orca process that also kills all other running Orca processes.
  • Orca now has a new "About" dialog.

4.2. Other Accessibility Updates

A significant amount of work has gone into GNOME Accessibility to remove Bonobo. The D-Bus implementation of AT-SPI has made to work side by side with the CORBA implementation. GNOME 2.30 is the last official release that will support the CORBA implementation with D-Bus replacing CORBA in GNOME 3.0.

If you are passionate about making GNOME accessible for all users, now is a great time to join the Accessibility team. Help make GNOME better for users with disabilities and join the GNOME Accessibility mailing list to learn more.