news 28 Posted June 2, 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 v2.23.3 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.3 development release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.23.3, including atk and gail. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.23.3? ================================== Lots! In addition, anything in the list below that begins with a '+' is in both the gnome-2-22 branch and trunk (this release). 2.23.3 - 02-Jun-2008 General: + Fix for bug #371637 - Orca repeats "Location:" info repeatedly in Nautilus File Browser Dialog. * Fix for bug #448817 - Being able to configure autostart from orca's settings. * Fix for bug #463646 - Orca doesn't announce the presence of unfocused dialogs when an app gains focus. * Additional fix for bug #520494 - Keyboard review punctuation in Firefox. (This was actually a general fix not isolated to Firefox) * Fix for bug #524998 - Selection is not shown if Ctrl+A is used to do "Select All". * Reversed the fix for bug #529784 - Speech cannot always be interrupted with flat review. Further investigation done by Rich and Will indicate that the bug in question is an espeak bug and this "fix" introduces more problems than it solves (see, for instance, bug #532982). * Fix for bug #534383 - Orca mouse review traceback at startup. * Fix for bug #535747 - Do not assume orca_state.lastNonModifierKeyEvent is non-None. Evolution: * Fix for bug #516565 - Orca speaks the full line of a message in Evo when it should not. + Fix for bug #533499 - Evolution contacts not being spoken when you navigate them. Firefox/Thunderbird: * Fix for bug #511561 - Orca should not impact the cursor position when replying to a message in thunderbird. * Fix for bug #515665 - Orca has problems with tables that have captions in FF3. + Fix for bug #527959 - Incorrect caret movement in Firefox 3 on certain Web pages. * Fix for bug #528644 - Orca should indicate when an autocomplete list has appeared in FF. * Fix for bug #532069 - Orca should read field labels on the NLS site. + Fix for bug #533125 - Orca does not speak Search textbox in Firefox Download Manager if it is empty. * Fix for bug #534393 - Moving by large object in firefox can skip text. * Fix for bug #535149 - Orca should override Home and End in Firefox 3 and Thunderbird. OOo: * Fix for bug #517048 - Orca does not always speak the correct information when navigating and/or selecting text across object boundaries in OOo Writer. New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): ar Arabic Djihed Afifi es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and Jorge Gonzalez hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall ====================== * Where can I get it ? ====================== You can obtain Orca v2.23.3 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.3.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.3.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
