New home for Accessibility Probe (AccProbe)

All:

I am pleased to announce a new home for Accessibility Probe (AccProbe), 
formerly part of the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF).[1] For 
a number of reasons, the IBM HA&AC has ended its participation in the 
Eclipse ACTF but the success and utility of AccProbe has led us 
to consider further enhancements and defect resolution as essential to our 
work.

This new home is the IAccessible2 Working Group [2], a working group 
within the Linux Foundation, formerly known as the Free Standards Group. 
Given that AccProbe is still the only game in town for testing your 
IAccessible2-enabled applications, this new home is a perfect fit for the 
tool.  AccProbe is still an Eclipse RCP, Windows-based, application that 
provides exploration of accessible object hierarchies, inspection of the 
properties of these objects, and event-monitoring of accessibility-related 
events that can be used for both IAccessible2- or more traditional 
MSAA-enabled applications. It is, however, now governed by the terms of 
the BSD rather than the EPL license, which will effect few (if any) users.

You can download a binary build of AccProbe or inspect its source.[3]  We 
hope that this new move makes the IAccessible2 WG a one-stop shop for 
those who are interested in developing, testing, and using IA2-enabled 
applications.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/actf
[2] 
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/iaccessible2
[3] http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yweb/util/accprobe/

--> Mike Squillace
IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center

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