ANNOUNCE: Orca v2.23.6

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* What is Orca?

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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 v2.23.6 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.6 development

release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME

v2.23.6, including atk and gail.

 

You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

 

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* What's changed for Orca v2.23.56?

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2.23.6 - 04-Aug-2008

 

General:

 

* Fix for bug #536985 - Orca no longer reads applets on the panel.

 

* More work on bug #542714 - Orca should indicate read-only text boxes.

 

* Fix for bug #545342 - Can no longer shift+click using Orca.

 

StarOffice/OpenOffice:

 

* Fix for bug #429390 - Braille stays on current line after pressing

return at end of line in OOo Writer.

 

Firefox:

 

* Fix for bug #544122 - Problems with downloading files with Firefox 3.

 

* Fix for bug #544197 - Orca speaks nothing when first tabbing into

the document frame in firefox.

 

* Fix for bug #544771 - Orca no longer moving the cursor on same page

links.

 

* Fix for bug #545623 - Revert to checking extents for navigating

amongst line breaks. This also seems to improve -- and may fix --

bug #534431 (Orca does not recognize blank lines when writing a

message in Thunderbird).

 

* Fix for bug #545946 - WhereAmI fails on Gecko Trees.

 

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

 

ar Arabic Djihed Afifi

es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and

Jorge Gonzalez

pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Vladimir Melo and

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin

 

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* Where can I get it ?

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You can obtain Orca v2.23.6 in source code form at the following:

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.6.tar.gz

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.6.tar.bz2

 

Enjoy!

 

The Orca Team

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