Accessibility related Release notes for 3.4

As we concluded on last #a11y meeting:

Mar 15 17:01:11 <API>   #action everybody, start to fill https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/ReleaseNotes/ThreePointFour ASAP
Mar 15 17:01:28 <jjmarin>       thanks API for the action 
Mar 15 17:01:35 <jjmarin>       the sooner the better

Juanjo Marín is working with the Marketing team to help to make the release notes, so he will use this page to include the accessibility related notes.

For Orca Users

For this release we conducted a thorough review of the accessibility of GNOME shell with Orca. Many accessibility improvements were made in GNOME Shell especially with respect to accessible names, roles, and states. Additional enhancements were made to Orca to ensure the access it provides is not only reliable but more performant. We think you will find GNOME Shell now works quite nicely with Orca and encourage you to give GNOME Shell a try and let us know what you think.

High contrast themes

• TThe Symbolic icon set has been re-themed and extended to produce an improved High Contrast experience for users. Support for the new widgets such as spin buttons and inline toolbars has been added.

• A screenshot: http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/hc-3-4/Screenshot%20from%202012-03-16%2012:48:17.png

Zoom Options Dialog

• A screenshot:

  • Mar 15 17:04:44 <clown> jjmarin, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification/ZoomOptionsDialog?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ZoomOptionsDialog.png

• This release includes a new Universal Access Control Center dialog for modifying magnifier user preferences.
• The "Zoom Options" dialog allows users to configure:
  • magnification factor.
  • mouse tracking.
  • position of the magnified view on screen.
  • crosshairs to help users find the mouse pointer.

at-spi2

• Various bug fixes
• If Orca is hung, it will no longer lock up the whole desktop

Accerciser

• Ipython plugin is working for the latest 0.11 and 0.12 IPython versions.
• Macaroon code has been partially moved to PyGObject.
• We included some new features, and more will arrive in the next cycle.

Your component

Looking Forward

* A lot of work have been in gettting a better accessibility support of the next WebKitGTK+ generation, Webkit2GTK+. Users will be notice of that as long a applications like Web or Yelp migrate to WebKit2GTK+ in the following releases.