news 28 Posted February 3, 2011 =============== * 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. You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. =================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.91.6? =================================== 2.91.6 - 31-January-2011 General: * Fix for bug #641033 - Sanity check needed before sending language to speech dispatcher * Fix for bug #640894 - always clear _gidleId when finished calling _dequeue * Fix for bug #640218 - Handle pyatspi LookupError exceptions better * Fix for bug #640342 - Only defer to the toolkit script for an object if the app script is associated with a different toolkit * Fix for bug #639876 - sometimes I cannot hear the name of the window when I press alt+tab * Fix for bug #640194 - Post-event-manager-refactor sanity checks needed * Fix for bug #640135 - Generator Cache can get cleared in the midst of getting the mnemonic, shortcut, and accelerator * Fix for bug #640072 - Orca crashes receiving a message from Pidgin * Fix for bug #640132 - Orca sometimes becomes non-responsive after an app is quit * Fix for bug #639992 - gdm-simple-greeter script did not have its import modified in recent refactor * Fix for bug 639974 - Orca crashes announcing progress bar updates while pressing alt + tab * Fix for bug #639668 - [Refactor] Eliminate the presentation manager and focus tracking presenter; create an event manager and script manager * Fix for bug #639669 - [Refactor] Remove script mapping from settings.py and clean up that code * Fix for bug #639670 - [Refactor] Move default.py into the scripts module * Fix for bug #639671 - [Refactor] Remove event recount and COMM_FAILURE handling * Fix for bug #639673 - Orca should support the creation and use of version-specific scripts for applications * Work on bug #638970 - Loading a new profile takes longer than ideal * Fix for bug #639418, not marked for translation the text-spelling attribute name * Fix for bug #638672 - Can't open the preferences dialog WebKitGtk/Yelp 3: * Fix for bug #640609 - Structural navigation should not kick in when the user is performing a search of WebKitGtk content * Fix for bug #640591 - The 'system' voice is incorrectly used after structural navigation wraps in WebKitGtk content * Fix for bug 640500 - Orca presents too much info for some links; not enough info for others in WebKitGtk * Fix for bug #640383 - Orca is not indicating caret position or selection for Headings in WebKitGtk * Fix for bug #640451 - Focused WebKitGtk links are not underlined in braille * Fix for bug #640383 - Orca is not indicating caret position or selection for Headings in WebKitGtk * Fix for bug #640381 - Orca is using the default voice for WebKitGtk roles when it should use the system voice * Fix for bug #640379 - Orca says 'read only' for paragraphs in WebKitGtk content * Fix for bug #640377 - Structural navigation sometimes fails to work with WebKitGtk content * Fix for bug #607854 - Yelp+WebKit not working well New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): cs Czech Marek Cernocky el Greek Marios Zindilis es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado gl Galician Fran Diéguez hu Hungarian Attila Hammer sl Slovenian Matej UrbanÄÂiÄ sv Swedish Daniel Nylander uk Ukrainian Maxim V. Dziumanenko zh_HK Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao, Wei-Lun Chao zh_TW Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao, Wei-Lun Chao ====================== * Where can I get it ? ====================== You can obtain Orca v2.91.6 in source code form at the following: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/2.91/orca-2.91.6.tar.gz http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/2.91/orca-2.91.6.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
