Announcing Orca v2.25.5

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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 v2.25.5 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.25.5 release and

requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.25.5.

 

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

 

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* What's changed for Orca v2.25.5?

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2.25.5 - 19-Jan-2009

 

General:

 

* Fix for bug #535221 - Automatic shortcut information spoken

 

* Fix for bug #562060 - Speech should speak multi case strings as words

 

* Fix for bug #562327 - Desktop tutor message order problem

 

* Fix for bug #563171 - src/orca/flat_review.py:getZonesFromText

should clip zones based on what text is visible

 

* Fix for bug #563200 - Orca not spoken the character code 8222

character. Added double low quote and single low quote to the

character names and punctuation table.

 

* Fix for bug #567428 - "readonly text" spoken when caret changes

line (in evolution)

 

Firefox/Thunderbird:

 

* Fix for bug #566954 - ARIA toggle button state not handled correctly

 

* Fix for bug #566955 - Need to remove extra whitespace from braille

output for Firefox 3.x.

 

* Fix for bug #567167 - Orca sometimes (re)announces that the document

frame has just received focus in Firefox 3.x.

 

* Fix for bug #567864 - Orca stops responding when flat review is used

in thunderbird message window and message is closed

 

* Partial fix for bug #567984 -Structural navigation needs to consider

text within the document frame.

 

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

 

es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and

Jorge Gonzalez

hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen

nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas

pt Portuguese Rui Batista and Duarte Loreto

 

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* Where can I get it?

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You can obtain Orca v2.25.5 in source code form at the following:

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.5.tar.gz

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.5.tar.bz2

 

Enjoy!

 

The Orca Team

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