[g-a-devel] [Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.20.0]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

These have been a very busy 6 months for the Orca team.  When I look
back on where we were 6 months ago, I'm amazed at how far we've come.
Thanks everyone for your support and contributions.  Orca is truly a
community project and I feel lucky to be involved with it.

For the very brave of you, feel free to keep pulling from the Orca SVN
trunk.  It will contain all the work we're doing for GNOME 2.22, and
you'll get it as soon as we do it.  Keep in mind, though, that it will
become unstable pretty soon as we work on rolling in the pyatspi
support:

  svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca-trunk
  cd orca-trunk
  ./autogen.sh
  make
  sudo make install

For those of you looking for more stability, keep pulling from the Orca
gnome-2-20 branch.  The Orca gnome-2-20 branch won't be getting new
features, but we do plan on rolling in high priority bug fixes:

  svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/branches/gnome-2-20 orca-2-20
  cd orca-2-20
  ./autogen.sh
  make
  sudo make install

The next 6 months to GNOME 2.22 will be just as busy as the past 6
months, and we look forward to your continued support and contributions.
For more information on where we hope to go, please visit the road map:
http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Orca

Thanks again, everyone!

Will
(Orca Project Lead)

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• From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
• To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
• Subject: Announcing Orca v2.20.0
• Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:34:32 -0400

===============
* 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 wonderful community members.

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

==================================
* What's changed for Orca v2.20.0?
==================================

See the release notes for what's changed since GNOME 2.18.0:
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ReleaseNotes/Orca

The following have changed since Orca v2.19.92:

General: 

* Fix for bug 472962 - Trailing space at end of message/string
  in console-based preferences set up.

* Fix for bug 473420 – Orca speaking an extra "seconds" for
  Preferences dialog.

* Fix for bug 473422 – Orca has traceback when giving focus to 
  Pidgin.

* Fix for bug 473991 - Orca doesn't announce autocompleted user 
  names in Pidgin.

* Fix for bug 475277 - support new AT-SPI event name format.

* Make sure to return pronunciations in script.py
  overridePronunciations.

* Fix problem in nautilus.py where the util.xxx module methods were
  still being referenced rather than using the self.xxx stuff.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug 468633 - No output when tabbing to ARIA slider.

* Fix for bug 472345 - Cannot arrow out of entries in FF3 if text 
  is inserted via javascript.

OpenOffice:

* Fix for bug 469367 - Orca StarOffice script not properly announcing
  (potential) indentation in OOo Writer.

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

    ar      Arabic               Djihed Afifi
    bg      Bulgarian            Alexander Shopov
    da      Danish               Kenneth Nielsen
    de      German               Jochen Skulj
    ca      Catalan              Gil Forcada and 
                                 Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó
    fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
    fr      French               Claude Paroz and Stéphane Raimbault
    it      Italian              Luca Ferretti
    ja      Japanese             Takeshi Aihana
    li      Lithuanian           Gintautas Miliauskas and Romas Mažeika
    mk      Macedonian           Jovan Naumovski
    pt      Portuguese           Duarte Loreto
    pt_BR   Brazilian Portuguese Djavan Fagundes and Raphael Higino
    ru      Russian              Anatoly Kamynin
    sq      Albanian             Laurent Dhima
    sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander
    th      Thai                 Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
    vi      Vietnamese           Clytie Siddall

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* Where can I get it ?
======================

You can obtain Orca v2.20.0 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.20.0.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.20.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team

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