Announcing Orca v2.24.1

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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 v2.24.1 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.

 

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* What's changed for Orca v2.24.1?

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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

 

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* Where can I get it?

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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

 

 

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