news 28 Posted October 15, 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 v2.24.1 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.24.1 release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.24.1. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.24.1? ================================== 2.24.1 - 15-Oct-2008 General: * Fix for bug #552088 - Add Utility to desktop categories. Thanks Patryk Zawadzki! * Fix for bug #552343 - Quoting special characters in espeechfactory.py and other changes. Thanks Dmitri Paduchikh! * For for bug #553413 - Orca can be double-started on login. NOTE: this method eliminates the ~/.config method for starting Orca. You might need to clean our your ~/.config directory if you're currently autostarting Orca. * Partial fix for bug #554002 - Orca App-Preferences dialog page tabs are "off" by one in speech and braille. (This fixes them for focus tracking. It turns out they are "off" in flat review as well.) * Fix for bug #554111 - Orca doesn't speak the Rhythmbox rating widget. Please note: At the moment, this functionality requires getting the latest patch by Jonathan Matthew on bug #368641 and building Rhythmbox from svn trunk. Many thanks Jonathan!! * Fix for bug #554673 - 80 cells Brailledisplay not usable because of contextual braille Information. Thanks Halim Sahin! * Fix for bug #556049 - Orca restarts when user logs out from session. * Fix for bug #556321 - Setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated. OpenOffice/StarOffice: * Fix for bug #546941 - Extraneous focus: events issued by OOo Writer lists cause excessive chattiness and braille issues. Yelp: * Fix for bug #553877 - Need to implement FF find functionality for Yelp. Firefox: * More work on bug #535178 - In Gecko, we should get the needed text for the speech and braille contexts while building up the line. * Fix for bug #527022 - updateBraille() has significant whitespace issues, should use braille generators when possible, and fails to underline links. * Fix for bug #552887 - Orca gets stuck in graphical boxes on websites. * Started work on bug #554831 - Google calendar unusable with orca. Please note that Google calendar is still unusable with Orca. This part of the fix just prevents a hang. * Workaround for bug #555466 - Orca should attempt to correct the Firefox breakage introduced by bug 535827 via script mapping. New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): See also the overall translation status: http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca da Danish Kenneth Nielsen it Italian Luca Ferretti pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Vladimir Melo and Og Maciel ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.24.1 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.24/orca-2.24.1.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.24/orca-2.24.1.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
