Gnopernicus

{{short description|Assistive technology}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Gnopernicus

| title =

| logo = Gnopernicus_application_icon.png

| logo caption = Gnopernicus logo

| logo_size =

| logo_alt = Gnopernicus logo

| screenshot = Gnopernicus-1.0.png

| caption = Gnopernicus

| screenshot_size = 200px

| screenshot_alt = Screenshot of some Gnopernicus dialog

| collapsible =

| author =

| developer =

| released = {{Start date and age|2001|12|07}}

| discontinued = yes

| latest release version = 1.1.2

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2006|08|21}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

| programming language = C

| operating system = Unix-like

| platform = AT-SPI

| genre = Screen reader Accessibility

| license = GNU Lesser General Public License 2

| website = {{URL|https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Gnopernicus}}

}}

Gnopernicus was a free GNOME desktop application that provided Assistive Technologies (AT) for blind and visually impaired users. Gnopernicus is no longer actively developed and has been replaced by Orca in GNOME.

Gnopernicus is a "one-size-fits-all" screen reader that provided speech, Braille, and magnification for users with a range of visual impairments. Gnopernicus provided for user interface customization - including customizing the speech output and voices, customizing the keystroke commands to drive it, customizing the Braille display key input, and customizing the way magnification is rendered. It was also possible to edit the XML files that describe the speech and Braille output renderings.{{cite news |title= Peter Korn's Weblog: Gnopernicus 1.0 released |url= https://blogs.oracle.com/korn/entry/gnopernicus_1_0_released2 |accessdate= 16 August 2013 |archive-date= 4 March 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304134823/https://blogs.oracle.com/korn/entry/gnopernicus_1_0_released2 |url-status= dead }}

Gnopernicus was bundled as the default screen reader on GNOME 2.4 on September 10, 2003;{{cite news|title= GNOME 2.4 Release Notes | url=https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.4/ | accessdate=16 August 2013}} however, the development of Gnopernicus was started in 2001.{{cite news|title= First commit in the Gnopernicus code repository | url=https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/gnopernicus/commit/?id=ebe81e27a21f78f9c745c19513127224f54c7996 | accessdate=16 August 2013}} Orca, with its radical different coding approach of making applications accessible, had more flexibility than the original Gnopernicus design and replaced it as the default screen reader in GNOME 2.16 in September 2006.{{cite news|title= getting orca included in gnome 2.16 thread | url=https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2006-June/thread.html | accessdate=16 August 2013}}{{cite news|title= GNOME 2.16 Release Notes | url=https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.16/ | accessdate=16 August 2013}}