news 28 Posted November 3, 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 v2.25.1 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.25.1 release. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.25.1? ================================== 2.25.1 - 03-Nov-2008 Changes since 2.24.1 General: * Refix for bug #552344 - tutorial message for desktop not spoken. This is a much safer fix that doesn't depend upon human consumable strings. * Fix for bug #554999 - add a new keybinding for toggling flat review. OpenOffice: * Fix for bug #357545 - Orca does not speak all buttons in OpenOffice database table creation wizard. Firefox: * Fix for bug #434780 - Orca does not provide access to text attributes in Firefox. New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): See also the overall translation status: http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca hu Hungarian Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen ca Catalan Gil Forcada ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.25.1 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.1.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.1.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post