Announcing Orca v2.29.1



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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 v2.29.1?
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These changes reflect changes made on the master branch since we branched for GNOME 2.28.

2.29.1 - 26-Sep-2009

General:

* Fix for bgo#594022 - cannot launch orca preferences - GError:
  Duplicate object id 'renderer3'

* Fix for bgo#595117 - Need to customize the presentation of the
  Packagemanager package list toggle

* Fix for bgo#596257 - Generator arguments are not passed along with
  _generateImage()

* Fix for bgo#596340 - Exception if no selection is given when
  choosing a language

* Fix for bgo#596364 - Create a script for the OpenSolaris Device
  Driver Utility

* Fix for bgo#596384 - Orca sometimes fails to speak a newly-focused
  table in certain OpenSolaris utilities

* Fix for bgo#596635 - gcalctool script will need to be updated for
  2.29/2.30/3.0

* Fix for bgo#598797 - Gnome-Terminal and VTE dump core when using
  Orca

OpenOffice:

* Fix for bgo#592917 - Orca doesn't present OOo Writer's Style combo
  box correctly

Firefox:

* Added script mapping for the latest Firefox.

* Fix for bgo#592634 - The Gecko script's handling of caret navigation
  interferes when navigating editable messages in Thunderbird

* Fix for bgo#593520 - The Gecko script's getBottomOfFile needs to be
  more efficient

* Fix for bgo#593594 - Orca says "blank" when Firefox returns a bogus
  value for getTextAtOffset

* Fix for bgo#593596 - When the user Up Arrows to a line in Firefox
  which begins with a nested paragraph, Orca fails to present that
  line

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

    bg	        Bulgarian	     Alexander Shopov
    ca	        Catalan		     Gil Forcada
    ca valencia Catalan (Valencian)  Carles Ferrando
    cs		Czech		     Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar
    da     	Danish	     	     Kenneth Nielsen
    de	     	German	     	     Simon Bienlein and
    	     			     Mario Blättermann
    el	 	Greek		     Kostas Papadimas
                                     and Jennie Petoumenou
    en_GB    	British English	     Bruce Cowan
    es		Spanish		     Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
    eu		Basque		     Inaki Larranaga
    fi	     	Finnish		     Ilkka Tuohela
    gl	     	Galician	     Antón Méixome
    it       	Italian              Luca Ferretti
    nb		Norwegian bokmål     Kjartan Marass
    pl	     	Polish		     Piotr Leszczyński
    pt		Portuguese	     Duarte Loreto
    pt_BR	Brazilian Portuguese Og B. Maciel and Marco de Freitas
    ro	     	Romanian	     Adi Roiban
    ta	     	Tamil		     drtvasudevan
    sl	     	Slovenian	     Matej Urbančič
    uk	     	Ukrainian	     Maxim V. Dziumanenko
    zh_HK    	Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao
    zh_TW    	Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.29.1 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.29/orca-2.29.1.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.29/orca-2.29.1.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team



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