news 28 Posted August 24, 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. You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. =================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.27.91? =================================== 2.27.91 - 24-Aug-2009 General: * Fix for bgo#591282 - add a switch to activate debug when executing orca * Fix for bgo#591289 - Need to remove duplicate speechTabLabel from orca-setup.ui * Fix for bgo#591382 - Need to add "word_char" to text_attribute_names.py for localization * Fix for bgo#591729 - Using cursor routing keys when the caret is panned off the display can cause cursor to jump * Fix for bgo#591734 - "No break space" character not spoken * Fix for bgo#591805 - Orca speaks the "restrict progress bar update to" label when the app preferences dialog loads * Fix for bgo#591907 - "All" hard to translate * Fix for bgo#592517 - Cursor position based upon uncontracted text when typing text and contracted braille is enabled * Fix for bgo#592741 - Fix .desktop file to meet GNOME goal OpenOffice/StarOffice: * Fix for bgo#356060 - Provide access to tree item level and state in OOo Navigator * Fix for bgo#590682 - Orca does not always speak the Paths table of the OOo Options dialog correctly * Fix for bgo#592138 - Orca speaks the next character rather than the next word when a paragraph boundary is crossed in Writer Evolution: * Fix for bgo#592708 - Orca should attempt to recognize Evo's Setup Assistant and present the (non-focused) prompts Firefox/Thunderbird: * Fix for bgo#577899 - Strange cursor movements in Firefox * Fix for bgo#584103 - Cursor problems when I compose a new message with Thunderbird 3.0B3 pre * Fix for bgo#591336 - Need a sanity check in Gecko's searchForCaretLocation * Fix for bgo#591351 - SayAll document function doesn't work correctly on some webpages * Fix for bgo#591592 - Orca does not speak and braille the appropriate information when moving by headings on all sites * Fix for bgo#591807 - Orca sometimes presents the previous line when Home/End is pressed in Gecko * Fix for bgo#591860 - Orca grinds to a halt when Ctrl+End is pressed in a really long message in Thunderbird * Fix for bgo#592383 - Orca gets stuck when it encounters a paragraph in Firefox which begins with a multi-line-high character New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov de German Christian Kirbach and Simon Bienlein es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez fr French Claude Paroz ga Irish Seán de Búrca gl Galician Antón Méixome gu Gujarati Ankit Patel and Sweta Kothari he Hebrew Mark Krapivner hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen pt Portuguese Rui Batista pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle sv Swedish Daniel Nylander ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.27.91 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.91.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.91.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
