The following is our proposed plan for the continued development of the LSR core and its extensions. This page is a living document. Plans for versions beyond the one currently in development are always subject to change based on available resources, developer interests, and project vision.

Please inform us of any feature you would like to implement, whether it is or is not listed below. Send your comments to lsr-list@gnome.org.

Short term

0.4.0 release

• Solid Perk development framework

  • Numerous TaskTools

  • All monitors (Event, Task, IO)

  • Model-based settings dialogs (Perks and built-in)

  • Perk tutorial

• Polished UI and settings dialog

• Public UI specification

• Improved UI reporting (table column headers, trees, text selection, indices, etc.)

• Magnifier device support

• Braille support

• Improved support for Firefox documents

0.5.0 release

• More Firefox document browsing support
• Braille and magnifier UI improvements

0.6.0 release

0.7.0 release

0.8.0 release

Long term

• Device developer's guide
• Model-based help dialogs
• Model-based device and per Perk settings dialogs

• Scripts for OpenOffice, Eclipse

• Scripts for LSR script development
• Speech callbacks with POR tracking
• POR bookmarks
• User and Perk writer guides
• ALSA support in pyibmtts?
• Interoperability with emacspeak, speakup?

Completed

0.3.0 release

• Improved support for widgets

  • Adapter improvements to handle trees, tables, combo boxes, sliders better

• Additional Task.Tools for improved programmatic access to desktop components

• IOMonitor for device logging

• User LSR settings presistence

• CliqueAudio device (experimental)

• Initial test plan

• DDC presentation and screencast

• GNOME summit screencast

• DECtalk and SpeechDispatcher support

• Initial support for browsing Firefox documents

• Model-based settings dialog (DONE)
• Proof-of-concept scripts for purposes other than accessibility for visual impairments (see GNOME summit screencast, (./))

0.2.1 release

• Post GaimPerk tutorial

• Output style objects to support arbitrary I/O devices and capabitilities

  • Requisite changes to TaskTools

  • Requisite changes to DeviceManager

  • Requisite changes to device interfaces

0.2.0 release

• GainPerk tutorial draft

• Direct IBM TTS wrapper

• Support for foreground versus background events

• State/property/hierarchy events

• Metadata model for generating settings chooser

• Metacity Perk for Alt-Tab application switching and Ctrl-Atl-Arrows desktop switching

• Improvements to gaim Perk (background messages, status changes)

• Initial support for Firefox chrome and bug identification

• Migration to gnome.org