Announcing Orca v2.31.4



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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.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.31.4?
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General:

  * Fix for bgo#622755 - Traceback when the Preferences dialog box is
    opened but espeak is not installed

  * Fix for bgo#622752 - espeechfactory should be the last factory
    tried when the default factory is unavailable

  * Fix for bgo#606978 - Detect working speech factory upon failure to
    initialize the preferred factory

  * Fix for bgo#606975 - Move to SpeechDispatcher for GNOME 3

  * Fix for bgo#622042 - Misordered dependencies in configure.in

  * Fix for bgo#622120 - Insert comments on "echo option" for clarify
    translations

  * Fix for bgo#621800 - GUI: should not be possible to set the right
    coordinate of zoomer position to less than left (ditto for bottom
    less than top)

  * Fix for bgo#619809 - Orca freezes when building the flat review
    context of the Keybindings table

  * Fix for bgo#621675 - Custom zoomer size has zero width (GnomeShell
    magnifier)

  * Fix for bgo#611576 - Present date/time

  * Fix for bgo#621000 - GtkCheckbuttons that simply change prefsDict
    can be handled by one handler

  * Fix for bgo#621325 - Dbus call to gs-mag to show crosshairs fails
    in some cases

  * Fix for bgo#621020 - Fix DBus interface to GNOME Shell Magnifier
    (GNOME Shell 2.31.2)

  * Fix for bgo#591925 - Give scripts a means by which to filter out
    events which are no longer relevant

Gecko:

  * Fix for bgo#622812 - Firefox: Combo boxes cannot be activated via
    cursor routing keys

  * Fix for bgo#622811 - Firefox: Braille not updated when checking a
    radio button

  * Fix for bgo#622821 - Structural navigation should not move to
    empty sections

  * Fix for bgo#618484 - Heuristic method of handling Thunderbird's
    flooded text insertions

  * Fix for bgo#620299 - Orca does not treat editable document frames
    as entries

  * Fix for bgo#621158 - Thunderbird combo box content does not show
    in Braille when combo has focus

Eclipse:

  * Fix for bgo#620018 - By reformatting a text or comment in eclipse,
    Orca speaks all the file contents

  * Fix for bgo#621873 - custom script for Eclipse may be refactored

Chat:

  * Fix for bgo#615489 - Migrate Pidgin script to new chat.py

  * Fix for bgo#621469 - The chat-only-if-focused options aren't
    respected when another script is active

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

    gl          Galician            Fran Diéguez
    nb          Norwegian bokmål    Kjartan Maraas

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.31.4 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.31/orca-2.31.4.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.31/orca-2.31.4.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team



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