Setup

Before one can proceed with testing accessibility, one needs to have a basic setup on his/her machine. This section will highlight the different kinds of testing and their relevant test setup.

Enabling Accessibility

To verify the accessible information accessibility needs to be enabled. Accessibility is enabled as follows,

Run “gconftool-2 -s -t boolean /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true”

Or

Include 'GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1' in the user profile file.

After enabling accessibility, if an application is run from the command prompt, the following messages will be displayed:

Bonobo accessibility support initialized

GTK Accessibility Module initialized

ATK Accessibility Bridge initialized

Currently, accessibility is disabled in GNOME by default.