Gnopernicus

Category: Tools Testing

Enable Accessibility: Yes

Test Aim

The aim here is to test an application’s accessibility via the speech support of Gnopernicus.

Test Setup Notes

Gnopernicus can be used with the following speech synthesisers

• Free TTS

• Festival

• DecTalk

• ViaVoice

The install procedure for FreeTTS and Festival have been covered here.

To have Gnopernicus launched by default on login

• create directory ~/.gnome2 if it doesn't exist yet

• create file ~/.gnome2/session-manual

• contents of session-manual file:

[Default]

num_clients=1

0,RestartStyleHint=3

0,Priority=60

0,RestartCommand=gnopernicus

a) Gnopernicus using Free TTS

• Requisite non gnome packages- Free TTS

• Instructions for installing Free TTS are available here.

b) Gnopernicus using Festival

• Requisite non gnome packages- Festival.

• Instructions for installing Festival are available here.

• The following environment/initialisation variables need to be set. Open the .bash_profile file and add the following lines to it.

• export FESTIVAL=1

• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/gnome2_directory/lib

• export GTK_MODULES=libgail:libatk-bridge

Note: Gnopernicus is available in pre-release forms in GNOME CVS. Build and installation instructions are available at http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html#_Toc15444294.

Tester Notes

• After the above setup, logout and login into the desktop.

• Start Gnopernicus.

• Test the various features in sync with an application of choice.

• The focus should be to ensure that all critical features of the application are being communicated to the user through voice.

Test Cases: Gnopernicus