Announcing Orca v2.18.0

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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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.

NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting 
compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox.  As of v2.18.0, the 
support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams 
are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0.  We're getting 
there step by step.

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* What's changed for Orca v2.18.0?
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* See http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes/Orca for a
 summary of what's changed since Orca v1.0.0.  The remainder of these
 bullet items cover what's changed since Orca v2.17.92.  NOTE to
 translators:  I'm still working on a summary of your hard work so
 your names will be in the release notes.

* Much more work on Gecko.py support for Firefox.  Firefox support
 still has a ways to go, both inside Firefox itself and inside Orca.

* Much more work on Gecko.py support for Thunderbird.  Thunderbird
 support still has a ways to go, both inside Thunderbird itself and
 inside Orca.  We recommend using Evolution at this time.

* Implemented GNOME GOAL #3 - removed "Application" from Categories in
 desktop file.

* Work to make sure Orca still works with the latest gnome-mag release.

* Updated man page.

* Fix for bug 413457 to prevent Orca from speaking various names for
 the "-" character twice in a row in German.

* Adjusted StarOffice.py to prevent a traceback in face of some regressions
 in oowriter.

* Support for better filtering of events in debug logs.

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

   ar      Arabic               Khaled Hosny and Djihed Afifi
   bg      Bulgarian            Alexander Shopov, Rostislav Raykov,
                                Vladimir Petkov, and Iassen Pramatarov
   ca      Catalan              Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó
   de      German               Hendrik Richter and Jochen Skulj
   dz      Dzongkha             Pema Geyleg
   en_GB   English/British      David Lodge and Gareth Owen
   fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
   fr      French               Jonathan Ernst and Stéphane Raimbault
   gu      Gujarati             Ankit Patel
   hu      Hungarian            Kálmán Kéménczy and Gabor Kelemen
   it      Italian              Luca Ferretti
   ko      Korean               Changwoo Ryu
   lt      Lithuanian           $-1¡½ygimantas Beru ­ka and Gintautas 
Miliauskas
   mk      Macedonian           Jovan Naumovski
   pt      Portuguese           Duarte Loreto
   pt_BR   Brazilian Portuguese Raphael Higino, Og Maciel, Jonh Wendell and
                Fábio Nogueira
   ru      Russian              Nickolay V. Shmyrev
   sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander
   uk      Ukrainian            Maxim Dziumanenko
   zh_HK   Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
   zh_TW   Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.17.92 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.0.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team