Announcing Orca v2.23.1

[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 generous contributions
from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful community members.

The Orca v2.23.1 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.1 development 
release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME 
v2.23.1, including atk and gail.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.23.1?
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This release includes lots of stuff since we branched for gnome-2-22 
around the GNOME 2.21.92 timeframe.  Anything in the list below that 
begins with a '+' is in both the gnome-2-22 branch and trunk (this release).

2.23.1 - 21-Apr-2008

General:

+ Fix for bug #517505 - Orca doesn't present new active descendant
  when deleting from the top of a list

+ Fix for bug #518507 - getSpeechForAlert() assumes unrelated labels
  have names

+ Fix for bug #518518 - Need to do some sanity checks for broken table
  hierarchies

+ Fix for bug #518762 - When using gnome-terminal with multiple tabs,
  the name on the tab is not announced when switching between tabbed
  windows

* Fix for bug #518914 - table column number missing in whereAmI info

+ Fix for bug #519901 - Orca doesn't warn via braille that an
  inaccessible object got the focus

* Fix for bug #520611 - New mouse review feature

* Fix for bug #520974 - Some script names are not marked for
  translation

* Fix for bug #522657 - this may take a while should be removed from
  the orca prefs

+ Fix for bug #523082 - text-setup should not use speech if
  --disable=speech is used

+ Fix for bug #523147 - "space" keyname is not marked for translation

* Fix for bug #523309 - "return" and "backspace" keynames is not
  marked for translations

* Fix for bug #523268 - refactor braille support of text attributes

+ Fix for bug #523642 - orca_prefs.py:_writePronunciation should not
  generate bad Python syntax

+ Fix for bug #523712 - Orca application specific preferences window
  doesn't always get focus when user types Insert-Control-Space


* Fix for bug #525348 - Orca uses wget. (It now uses DBus)

+ Fix for bug #525831 - isn't properly handling SIGTERM

* Fix for bug #525592 - Provide 'diff' like output for regression test
  failures

* Fix for bug #525649 - Don't bomb when no DISPLAY is set

Evolution:

* Fix for bug #519936 - In Evolution Orca does not read the messages
  list properly when in "read table row" mode

Pidgin:

+ Fix for bug #525644 - Pidgin buddy status changes cause Orca to
  display "cell" in braille

+ Fix for bug #525656 - Orca needs to handle the new Pidgin typing
  status updates

OOo:

+ Fix for bug #517502 - Orca should not speak the previously focused
  menu item when arrowing across the menu bar in OpenOffice

+ Fix for bug #523018 - Orca does not speak the role for edits in the
  find and replace dialog in openoffice

Firefox:

+ Fix for bug #491837 - Implement Gecko.py 'go to' functions with
  Collections

* Fix for bug #512103 - Orca speaks too much of the context in FF3

+ Fix for bug #512503 - Remove "object:visible-data-changed" listener
  from Gecko.py

+ Fix for bug #515804 - Whitespace needs to be removed from speech and
  braille contexts in FF3

+ Fix for bug #517277 - Orca should not get stuck while browsing
  articles at espn.com

+ Fix for bug #518893 - extra verbosity in web pages with nested frames

+ Fix for bug #519416 - Zoomer loses focus when doing a web search

+ Fix for bug #519478 - (ff3) missing text with line down navigation
  (www.fixedearth.com)

* Fix for bug #519587 - Navigating nested lists with Collection not
  functioning properly

+ Fix for bug #519931 - Orca does not read certain news feeds
  correctly

+ Fix for bug #520029 - Better handle our presentation of images and
  text on a web page when the image spans multiple lines

* Fix for bug #520612 - Add cursor key routing support to Gecko

+ Fix for bug #520760 - (ff3) read document ignoring remainder of
  object when first subelement is non-text.

+ Fix for bug #523480 - Unwanted roles appearing in the braille
  context for dojo in FF3

+ Fix for bug #523759 - Gecko.getCharacterOffsetInParent() needs
  to check the parent for text

* Fix for bug #526366 - Remove the unused line navigation code from
  Gecko.py

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

    ca      Catalan              Gil Forcada
    cs      Czech                Lucas Lommer, Martin Sukany and
                                 Petr Kovar
    da      Danish               Kenneth Nielsen
    de      German               Jochen Skulj
    el      Greek                Giannis Katsampipis and
                                 Kostas Papadimas
    en_GB   Philip Withnall      English/British
    es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
    hu      Hungarian            Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
    ja      Japanese             Takeshi Aihana
    ml      Malayalam            Ani Peter
    nb      Norwegian Bokmål     Kjartan Maraas
    nl      Dutch                Vincent van Adrighem
    nn      Norwegian Nynorsk    Eskild Hustvedt
    pt_BR   Brazilian Portuguese Tiago Melo Casal and
                                 Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
    sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander
    te      Telugu               Krishna Babu K and Sunil Mohan Adapa

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.23.1 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.1.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.1.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team