Lately, I've been working on some tools to help us improve the level of accessibility support in our desktop. In doing so, I ended up creating a python module to minimize the code duplication between scripts, as each application being tested, needs its own script. The module itself does a little initialization and shutdown stuff, and writes out an HTML file to present a nice tabular report of missing Name and Description identifiers on accessible widgets, using LDTP. It also does all the scanning work via two fairly simple public methods, a11y_scan_window and a11y_scan_dialog. The latter of which, takes an additional argument as a button to click to close the dialog, typically 'btnCancel' or 'btnClose' in GNOME apps. The scripts are hardly complete though, and we need to get a lot more written to fill out the need for testing all of the applications in the desktop. I've made a couple releases and put them up on download.freedesktop.org. The 2.11 version is targetted at supporting GNOME 2.12 on SLED 10, and the 2.15 version is targetted at supporting GNOME 2.16. It's also available in CVS under the LDTP project on Freedesktop, and requires the latest CVS version of LDTP to work, as the released versions don't support poking at the Description property on the objects.

Please help us complete the scripts and get every dialog and window in the desktop scanned for accessibility support. The scripts are also great for building more extensive tests for the desktop on, so we can also get a great set of automated test scripts for our desktop out of this as well. And of course, running the scripts in different ways on different platforms will help expose bugs in LDTP so that we can get them fixed, and make LDTP really kick some ass as well.