news 28 Posted June 16, 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 v2.23.4 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.4 development release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.23.4, including atk and gail. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.23.4? ================================== Lots! In addition, anything in the list below that begins with a '+' is in both the gnome-2-22 branch and trunk (this release). 2.23.4 - 16-Jun-2008 General: * Fix for bug #397306 - Orca's default synthesis engine choice should take language into account. * Fix for bug #464194 - Refactor keybindings to always care about Control/Shift/Alt/Orca modifiers. + Refix for bug #487585 - Orca Usage message should be localized. Do not mark the command line options for translation. * Fix for bug #517532 - change dict.has_key() usage to set operator 'in'. * Fix for bug #529655 - After inputting an incorrect password on the screensaver, orca can't speak the whole dialog. * Fix for bug #530368 - Only move focus if the event is for the focused/active window. Java: + Fix for bug #435585 - Java ControlPanel GIVING UP AFTER 5 TRIES. OOo: * Fix for bug #521450 - Orca should read the next/previous paragraph by a keystroke. * Fix for bug #537851 - Moving cursor with mouse in oowriter causes traceback. Thunderbird: * Fix for bug #507922 - Include page tab name in braille context for Thunderbird. * Fix for bug #535192 - Misspelled word and suggestion not spoken in Thunderbird spell check. * Fix for bug #537425 - Orca should provide context for misspelled words in Thunderbird spell check. Firefox: * Fix for bug #531806 - Wrapped item lists don't give proper braille in Gecko. New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): ar Arabic Djihed Afifi bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and Jorge Gonzalez nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas oc Occitan Yannig Marchegay vi Vietnamese Clytie Siddall ====================== * Where can I get it ? ====================== You can obtain Orca v2.23.4 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.4.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.4.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
