news 28 Posted April 21, 2008 =============== * What is Orca? =============== Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification. Orca development has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office via continued engagement with its end users and generous contributions from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful community members. The Orca v2.23.1 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.1 development release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.23.1, including atk and gail. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.23.1? ================================== This release includes lots of stuff since we branched for gnome-2-22 around the GNOME 2.21.92 timeframe. Anything in the list below that begins with a '+' is in both the gnome-2-22 branch and trunk (this release). 2.23.1 - 21-Apr-2008 General: + Fix for bug #517505 - Orca doesn't present new active descendant when deleting from the top of a list + Fix for bug #518507 - getSpeechForAlert() assumes unrelated labels have names + Fix for bug #518518 - Need to do some sanity checks for broken table hierarchies + Fix for bug #518762 - When using gnome-terminal with multiple tabs, the name on the tab is not announced when switching between tabbed windows * Fix for bug #518914 - table column number missing in whereAmI info + Fix for bug #519901 - Orca doesn't warn via braille that an inaccessible object got the focus * Fix for bug #520611 - New mouse review feature * Fix for bug #520974 - Some script names are not marked for translation * Fix for bug #522657 - this may take a while should be removed from the orca prefs + Fix for bug #523082 - text-setup should not use speech if --disable=speech is used + Fix for bug #523147 - "space" keyname is not marked for translation * Fix for bug #523309 - "return" and "backspace" keynames is not marked for translations * Fix for bug #523268 - refactor braille support of text attributes + Fix for bug #523642 - orca_prefs.py:_writePronunciation should not generate bad Python syntax + Fix for bug #523712 - Orca application specific preferences window doesn't always get focus when user types Insert-Control-Space * Fix for bug #525348 - Orca uses wget. (It now uses DBus) + Fix for bug #525831 - isn't properly handling SIGTERM * Fix for bug #525592 - Provide 'diff' like output for regression test failures * Fix for bug #525649 - Don't bomb when no DISPLAY is set Evolution: * Fix for bug #519936 - In Evolution Orca does not read the messages list properly when in "read table row" mode Pidgin: + Fix for bug #525644 - Pidgin buddy status changes cause Orca to display "cell" in braille + Fix for bug #525656 - Orca needs to handle the new Pidgin typing status updates OOo: + Fix for bug #517502 - Orca should not speak the previously focused menu item when arrowing across the menu bar in OpenOffice + Fix for bug #523018 - Orca does not speak the role for edits in the find and replace dialog in openoffice Firefox: + Fix for bug #491837 - Implement Gecko.py 'go to' functions with Collections * Fix for bug #512103 - Orca speaks too much of the context in FF3 + Fix for bug #512503 - Remove "object:visible-data-changed" listener from Gecko.py + Fix for bug #515804 - Whitespace needs to be removed from speech and braille contexts in FF3 + Fix for bug #517277 - Orca should not get stuck while browsing articles at espn.com + Fix for bug #518893 - extra verbosity in web pages with nested frames + Fix for bug #519416 - Zoomer loses focus when doing a web search + Fix for bug #519478 - (ff3) missing text with line down navigation (www.fixedearth.com) * Fix for bug #519587 - Navigating nested lists with Collection not functioning properly + Fix for bug #519931 - Orca does not read certain news feeds correctly + Fix for bug #520029 - Better handle our presentation of images and text on a web page when the image spans multiple lines * Fix for bug #520612 - Add cursor key routing support to Gecko + Fix for bug #520760 - (ff3) read document ignoring remainder of object when first subelement is non-text. + Fix for bug #523480 - Unwanted roles appearing in the braille context for dojo in FF3 + Fix for bug #523759 - Gecko.getCharacterOffsetInParent() needs to check the parent for text * Fix for bug #526366 - Remove the unused line navigation code from Gecko.py New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): ca Catalan Gil Forcada cs Czech Lucas Lommer, Martin Sukany and Petr Kovar da Danish Kenneth Nielsen de German Jochen Skulj el Greek Giannis Katsampipis and Kostas Papadimas en_GB Philip Withnall English/British es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen ja Japanese Takeshi Aihana ml Malayalam Ani Peter nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas nl Dutch Vincent van Adrighem nn Norwegian Nynorsk Eskild Hustvedt pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Melo Casal and Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle sv Swedish Daniel Nylander te Telugu Krishna Babu K and Sunil Mohan Adapa ====================== * Where can I get it ? ====================== You can obtain Orca v2.23.1 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.1.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.1.tar.bz2 Enjoy! 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