news 28 Posted February 2, 2009 =============== * 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 v2.25.90 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.25.90 release. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. =================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.25.90? =================================== 2.25.90 - 02-Feb-2009 General: * Fix for bug #553678 - orca can act badly at login time * Fix for bug #561548 - Orca locks up when closing some Pidgin conversations. * Fix for bug #562060 - Speech should speak multi case strings as words. Adjust the regexes used. * Fix for bug #563128 - Text-based setup should offer option to automatically launch Orca on login * Fix for bug #567428 -"readonly text" spoken when caret changes line. * Fix for bug #568751 - Interaction with the punctuation preferences can cause a hang * Fix for bug #568589 - braillegenerator adding image string versus braille.Component for table cells * Fix for bug #568875 - Pressing "Apply" button in preferences dialog causes autostart option to be checked * Fix for bug #569118 - Use C_() instead of Q_() with context NOTE: you need to install SUNWgnu-gettext and rerun your autogen.sh to work with this change on OpenSolaris. Firefox: * Fix for bug #537303 - Certain FF3 add-ons interfere with Orca's ability to provide access to content. * Fix for bug #552965 - aria-valuetext ignored * Fix for bug #567984 - Structural navigation needs to consider text within the document frame. * Fix for bug #568467 - aria-describedby text spoken twice via Where Am I * Fix for bug #568550 - Add default keybindings for navigating by landmarks * Fix for bug #568631 - Orca does not update the position for same-page links which reference objects by name/id in Firefox 3. * Fix for bug #569346 - No speech for image-only ARIA buttons and ARIA menu items * Fix for bug #569835 - Orca should support the ARIA haspopup attribute New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): NOTE - the fix for bug #569118 caused changes in every *.po file. ca Catalan Gil Forcada es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and Jorge Gonzalez hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen ko Korean Changwoo Ryu sv Swedish Daniel Nylander ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.25.90 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.90.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.90.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
