news 28 Posted July 22, 2008 Something must be special about this release because the lightening came, the hail came, yet the power stayed on long enough for me to upload the tarball. It may be that it reflects contributions from community members who help show that open source can work: Halim Sahin, Mario Lang, Flavio Percoco Premoli, and (my favorite name) Jon Orcauser. Way to go! =============== * 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 v2.23.5 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.5 development release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.23.5, including atk and gail. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.23.5? ================================== Lots! 2.23.5 - 21-Jul-2008 General: * Fix for bug #520596 - Orca should implement echo by sentence. * Additional fix for bug #525656 - Orca needs to handle the new Pidgin typing status updates. This was needed due to a change in Pidgin. * Fix for bug #533095 - Magnifier should turn off the system sprite/cursor/mouse when using full screen magnification. This requires a new gnome-mag release as well. * Fix for bug #534022 - The Line-end symbol (46 123) should be configurable per application. * Fix for bug #536825 - Allow bypass of Orca's keyboard commands. (The default keybinding is Orca+Backspace, but you can change that by specifying a new binding in the Orca Preferences dialog.) * Fix for bug #536985 - Orca no longer reads applets on the panel. * Fix for bug #538058 - The role for accessibles of ROLE_LIST_ITEM should not be spoken when the accessible is given focus. * Fix for bug #538729 - In Orca preferences window /text attributes page the text attribute names not marked for translation. * Fix for bug #538773 - Enable a quick 'smoke test' for whether Orca can see things via the AT-SPI. Added a --list-apps option to print the list of known applications. * Fix for bug #540937 - Orca doesn't check if the wnck python bindings are installed. * Fix for bug #541094 - Back out 'silent focus' code. * Fix for bug #541437 - Trying to quit Orca with the mouse doesn't give focus to the Quit dialog. * Fix for bug #542260 - Orca should only keep track of active/non-defunct progress bars. * Fix for bug #542262 - Orca should only echo words once when word echo is enabled. * Fix for bug #542367 - Some key names not marked for translation. * Fix for bug #542714 - Orca should indicate read-only text boxes. * Fix for bug #542719 - Modified column header does not appear translated in Preferences - Key bindings page. * Fix for bug #543775 - Orca uses incorrect voice sometimes in text setup. Java: * Much work on bug #435623 - Java Platform Metabug (see comment #6 in the bug for more information). StarOffice/OpenOffice: * Fix for bug #538053 - Word echo is not echoing the word typed when return is pressed while editing an Impress slide. * Fix for bug #538056 - Orca should announce the "view" as part of the scroll pane context in Impress. * Fix for bug #538064 - Orca should speak placeholder contents when that placeholder is given focus on an Impress slide. * Fix for bug #538835 - Word echo is not echoing the word typed when return is pressed while creating an oowriter text document. Firefox: * Fix for bug #519515 - Support ARIA "required" state. This adds support for presenting the fact that the required state has been set for the following types of ARIA widgets: - checkbox - gridcell - radiogroup - slider - spinbutton We'll add support for additional widgets over time. In order to minimize verbosity, this state is not presented by default. To change this setting, set orca.settings.presentRequiredState to True in your user-settings.py or orca-customizations.py. In addition, we've added in support for customizing the strings used to present the required state. By default, "required" (or the localized form of it) will be used for both speech and braille. Modify orca.settings.brailleRequiredStateString and/or orca.settings.speechRequiredStateString if you would prefer a different string. * Fix for bug #530783 - Orca speaks an image map link's shape as part of the whereAmI info in FF3. * Fix for bug #533109 - Orca doesn't speak alerts in Firefox. * Fix for bug #535023 - Structural Navigation should be pulled out of Gecko and include more objects. * Fix for bug #536455 - Contents of "Save In Folder" combo box not indicated in speech/braille in Firefox/Thunderbird. * Fix for bug #537839 - Orca does not remember the last position on a webpage in firefox when using the back command. * Fix for bug #539075 - Navigation problems with Firefox 3 & Aria example. * Fix for bug #540187 - Wrapped structural navigation toggle. There is a new setting (wrappedStructuralNavigation) which controls whether or not we wrap around the document when structural navigation is used. The default value is True (i.e. do wrap). If you would prefer Orca not wrap, you can set it to False in your user-settings.py or your orca-customizations.py. * Fix for bug #542324 - When launch Firefox 3.0 and pressing CTRL+Orca+space key, In Orca application preferences/keybindings page some structural navigation description not marked for translation. * Fix for bug #542927 - Live region commands should be treated as structural navigation commands when in form fields in Firefox 3. * Fix for bug #543496 - Problems with performing mouse clicks in Firefox. Thunderbird: * Fix for bug #533042 - Orca should be less verbose when reading autocompletes in Thunderbird. * Fix for bug #536451 - Newly focused message not spoken after message deletion in Thunderbird. * Fix for bug #536455 - Contents of "Save In Folder" combo box not indicated in speech/braille in Firefox/Thunderbird. * Fix for bug #540039 - Newly focused message not spoken after message deletion in Thunderbird if a message is open. * Fix for bug #540407 - Problems reading messages in Thunderbird when arrowToLineBeginning is False. * Fix for bug #540833 - Word echo not working in Thunderbird address fields if autocompletion is not active. * Fix for bug #541018 - Mail messages not automatically read when opened in Thunderbird. * Fix for bug #543024 - Important header fields for received messages not spoken when tabbing through headers in Thunderbird message view. New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and Jorge Gonzalez gl Galician Ignacio Casal Quinteiro hu Hungarian Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas oc Occitan Yannig Marchegay ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin ====================== * Where can I get it ? ====================== You can obtain Orca v2.23.5 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.5.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.5.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
