Announcing Orca v2.27.91
- From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
- Subject: Announcing Orca v2.27.91
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:25:12 +0000
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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.
You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.
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* What's changed for Orca v2.27.91?
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2.27.91 - 24-Aug-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#591282 - add a switch to activate debug when executing
orca
* Fix for bgo#591289 - Need to remove duplicate speechTabLabel from
orca-setup.ui
* Fix for bgo#591382 - Need to add "word_char" to
text_attribute_names.py for localization
* Fix for bgo#591729 - Using cursor routing keys when the caret
is panned off the display can cause cursor to jump
* Fix for bgo#591734 - "No break space" character not spoken
* Fix for bgo#591805 - Orca speaks the "restrict progress bar update
to" label when the app preferences dialog loads
* Fix for bgo#591907 - "All" hard to translate
* Fix for bgo#592517 - Cursor position based upon uncontracted text
when typing text and contracted braille is enabled
* Fix for bgo#592741 - Fix .desktop file to meet GNOME goal
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bgo#356060 - Provide access to tree item level and state in
OOo Navigator
* Fix for bgo#590682 - Orca does not always speak the Paths table of
the OOo Options dialog correctly
* Fix for bgo#592138 - Orca speaks the next character rather than the
next word when a paragraph boundary is crossed in Writer
Evolution:
* Fix for bgo#592708 - Orca should attempt to recognize Evo's Setup
Assistant and present the (non-focused) prompts
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#577899 - Strange cursor movements in Firefox
* Fix for bgo#584103 - Cursor problems when I compose a new message
with Thunderbird 3.0B3 pre
* Fix for bgo#591336 - Need a sanity check in Gecko's
searchForCaretLocation
* Fix for bgo#591351 - SayAll document function doesn't work correctly
on some webpages
* Fix for bgo#591592 - Orca does not speak and braille the appropriate
information when moving by headings on all sites
* Fix for bgo#591807 - Orca sometimes presents the previous line when
Home/End is pressed in Gecko
* Fix for bgo#591860 - Orca grinds to a halt when Ctrl+End is pressed
in a really long message in Thunderbird
* Fix for bgo#592383 - Orca gets stuck when it encounters a paragraph
in Firefox which begins with a multi-line-high character
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
de German Christian Kirbach and Simon Bienlein
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
fr French Claude Paroz
ga Irish Seán de Búrca
gl Galician Antón Méixome
gu Gujarati Ankit Patel and Sweta Kothari
he Hebrew Mark Krapivner
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.27.91 in source code form at the following:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.91.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.91.tar.bz2
Enjoy!
The Orca Team
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