Announcing Orca v2.19.91



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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
contributions from wonderful community members.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.19.91?
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2.19.91 - 26-Aug-2007

General:

* Work on bug 356068 - Provide a command for identifying the default
  button within a dialog

* Fix for bug 446878 - Orca causes pygtk application to generate
  GtkWarning messages (Thanks LiYan Zhang and Yi Jin!)

* Fix for a traceback error in getFrame() in default.py.  See bug
  465087 for more details.

* Work on bug 465989 - Adding panel applets.  Added support for
  image-only table cells to prevent silence from happening when we
  come across these kinds of things.

* Fix for bug 466500 - Speech Dispatcher backend crashes with
  older SD versions (Thanks Tomas Cerha!)

* Fix for bug 466725 - Traceback when using SayAll in GEdit when text
  lacks sentence punctuation
 
* Fix for bug 467425 - Orca should default to an empty pronunciation
  dictionary

* Fix for bug 467563 - Speech Dispatcher backend crashes in text setup
  (Thanks Tomas Cerha!)

* Work on bug 468098 - The whereAmI implementation doesn't always
  match the whereAmI spec

* Fix for bug 468786 - Braille verbosity setting not reset

* Fix for bug 469615 - A few lingering i18n issues.  Many thanks to
  Kenneth Nielsen from the l10n team for helping us with this.

Firefox/Thunderbird:

* Fix for bug 466764 - Orca doesn't provide access to alerts that
  appear when page is loading in FF3

* Fix for bug 468765 - Orca does not provide access to shortcuts for
  FF3 or Thunderbird menu items

* Fix for bug 470332 - Can no longer arrow to push buttons in FF3

Java Platform:

* Fix for bug 464855 - orca speaks/brailles scroll bar arrows as
  anonymous "push buttons"

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

    da      Danish               Kenneth Nielsen
    es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                 Jorge Gonzalez
    fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
    gu      Gujarati             Ankit Patel
    mk      Macedonian           Jovan Naumovski
    nb      Norwegian Bokm�    Kjartan Maraas
    si      Sinhala              Danishka Navin
    sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.19.91 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.91.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.91.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team





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