Announcing Orca v2.25.90

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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 v2.25.90 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.25.90 release.

 

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

 

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* What's changed for Orca v2.25.90?

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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

 

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* Where can I get it?

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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

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