Announcing Orca v3.7.4



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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 and refreshable braille.

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What's Changed in 3.7.4
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New Commands (Unbound keybindings)

  * Cycle amongst saved settings profiles

  * Copy and append text from flat review to the clipboard

Web Related

  * Fix for bug 677615 - In Firefox www.google.com links not presented
    in braille

  * Fix for bug 675362 - Orca doesn't speak certain radio button labels
    in Firefox

  * Fix for bug 669377 - Cannot read web pages while file download
    dialog present

  * Always use the Collection interface for structural navigation and
    page summary

  * Do not try to infer labels from widgets deeply buried in table cells

  * Changes to make Orca's generic label inference code work better with
    Gecko

  * Move the Gecko script to use Orca's label inference code

  * When Gecko reports the end offset is -1, use the characterCount
    instead

  * Be sure we have a last input event before checking its time for live
    region presentation

Other Bug Fixes

  * Fix for bug 684951 - Do not present 'icon' and 'canvas' rolenames if
    verbosity is brief

  * Fix for bug 591871 - Orca says "off" for all push buttons on the
    LibreOffice toolbars and doesn't say "on" when it should

  * Fix for bug 515817 - Flat review lands on blank line at end of text
    area when navigating by previous word

  * Get Orca doing a better job of presenting the Evolution Account
    Assistant

  * Handle caret offset of -1 when getting text for non-focused objects

  * Fix for bug 600204 - Mouse Review Errors

  * Fix a traceback in the braille monitor

  * Change the debug level the script manager prints dead accessible
    warnings

Miscellaneous Cruft Removal

  * Remove the GNOME2ish locusOfFocusChanged() method from the Evolution
    script

  * Remove the non-funcutioning Evolution new mail announcement

  * Fix another GObject deprecation

  * Remove several variables whose value we aren't using

  * Remove some obsolete debugging methods

  * Remove a check related to ROLE_HTML_CONTAINER from the Gecko script

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

    an            Aragonese          Jorge Pérez Pérez
    ar            Arabic             Khaled Hosny
    el            Greek              Dimitris Spingos
    es            Spanish            Daniel Mustieles
    gl            Galician           Fran Diéguez
    lt            Lithuanian         Aurimas Černius
    pl            Polish             Piotr Drąg
    ru            Russian            Yuri Myasoedov
    sl            Slovenian          Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič

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Download
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http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.7/orca-3.7.4.tar.xz

Enjoy!
--joanie


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