news 28 Posted September 9, 2008 Wow! This one came up fast after the last one. Many many thanks to Joanmarie Diggs for burning the midnight oil on this release. She went way above and beyond the call of duty. Joanie - you are AWESOME! =============== * 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 v2.23.92 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.92 development release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.23.92, including atk and gail. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. =================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.23.92? =================================== Good stuff. :-) 2.23.92 - 08-Sep-2008 General: * Partial fix for bug #527022 - Linked text should be "underlined" in braille in Firefox. The complexity of this space, however, has caused us to table the braille underlining of links until the 2.26 release of GNOME. * Fix for bug #550249 - configure doesn't use find bonobo python Yelp: * Much work toward the fix for bug #356041 - GNOME Help (yelp) is inaccessible. Please note that access to Yelp is a work in progress: on our end, and on the Yelp end, and may also require the Mozilla guys to fix something on their end. As of today, in order for the yelp script to work, you will need to build yelp -- after applying the patch attached to bug #545162. Many, many, many thanks to Ginn Chen for that patch and for getting to the bottom of a rather odd accesibility hierarchy. StarOffice/OpenOffice: * Fix for bug #515923 - 'Area' labels of Calc Headers/Footers dialog not always announced. * Fix for for bug #550137 - Presentation of table content in OOo Writer is largely hosed and we're double-speaking paragraphs in OOo Writer docs. * Fix for bug #551077 - Traceback and loss of speech in OOo Writer docs with both links and multbyte characters on the same line * Fix for bug #551159 - Orca says "link" when it shouldn't and sometimes fails to say it when it should in OOo Writer documents. Firefox: * Fix for bug #541605 - updateBraille() can take an unreasonable amount of time with certain pages in Firefox 3. * Fix for bug #550873 - Some live region text updates are not presented New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): en_GB English/British David Lodge hi Hindi Rajesh Ranjan ja Japanese Takeshi Aihana mai Maithili Sangeeta Kumari pl Polish Piotr Leszczyński pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto sv Swedish Daniel Nylander ta Tamil Tirumurthi Vasudevan tr Turkish Baris Cicek ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.23.92 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.92.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.92.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
