Re: orca-0.2.4

["Cody Hurst" <cdog2005 gmail com>]

Nice job!

Cody

On 5/15/06, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> ==============
> * What is it ?
> ==============
>
> Orca is a scriptable screen reader for the GNOME desktop for people with
> visual impairments.  For more information see:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/index.html
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca
>
> NOTE: www.gnome.org may still say the latest stable release is 0.2.2.
> As of the writing of this e-mail, we've updated the web content in CVS
> and are waiting for the automatic updater for the page to fire.
>
> ==================
> * What's changed ?
> ==================
>
> ==========
> Orca 0.2.4
> ==========
>
> For the Orca 0.2.4 release, we concentrated on the major issues opened
> when we proposed Orca for inclusion into GNOME 2.16:
>
>   1) Orca 0.2.4 introduces both GUI and text configuration
>      mechanisms for setting user preferences.
>
>   2) Orca 0.2.4 also includes support for magnification.  For
>      this support to work, gnome-mag-0.12.5 (soon to be released),
>      is required.
>
> Orca 0.2.4 also introduces support for key and word echo and fixes to a
> number of bugs.  A detailed list of the changes are as follows:
>
> 0.2.4
> * Addition of text and GUI preferences configuration tools.
>   NOTE: 0.2.4 eliminates orca-setup and replaces it with the
>   "--setup" (GUI or text, depending upon your environment),
>   "--gui-setup" (GUI), "--text-setup" (text), "--no-setup"
>   (bypass any automatic setup mechanism - useful for running
>   with gdm accessible login) command line options to the
>   "orca" command.  You can also bring up the GUI while orca
>   is running by pressing Insert+space.
>   WARNING: 0.2.4 also introduces an incompatible change to
>   the configuration file and requires you to "rm -rf ~/.orca"
>   and rerun orca setup.
> * Fix for bug 340662 - do not require the desktop to be running
>   to set up orca preferences.
> * Addition of support for magnification similar to that in
>   Gnopernicus.
> * Fix for bug 331512 - addition of key and word echo.  We need
>   community feedback on this.
> * Work on specifying the external dependencies for building
>   and running Orca.
> * Fix for bug where metacity workspaces (accessed via
>   Ctrl+Alt+Arrow) were being announced as inaccessible.
> * Work on dealing with the Java platform giving us
>   CORBA::Unknown objects instead of Bonobo::Unknown objects.
>   Java platform support, however, still has a long way to go.
> * Work on coping with CORBA COMM_FAILURES a little better.
> * Fix for bug 338097 - better support for the "planner"
>   application.
> * Work for bug 338890 - add ""--version" option to orca to
>   output the version.  Orca also now uses the getopt facility
>   to get command line options.
> * Fix for bug 340773 - focus events were interrupting the
>   automatic reading of dialog boxes.
> * Fix for bug 340625 - better handling of table cells.
> * Fix for bugs 340559, 337371 - reduce repetitive output of
>   slider values.
> * Fix for bug 319732 - move .label logic from atspi.spi to
>   something that can be more easily overridden by scripts.
> * Fix for bug 340481 - combo box updates were not being
>   handled correctly.
> * Fix for bug 340305 - combo box labels were not being presented.
> * Fix for bug 340556 - radio button group names were not being
>   presented.
> * Fix for bug 338839 - allow speech to be enabled/disabled using
>   Insert+s.
> * Fix for bug 339932 - shutdown orca better on Ctrl+C from
>   the command line.
> * Fix for bug 339927 - use floating point values for speech
>   rate, gain, and pitch to provide finer granularity of settings.
> * Fix for bug 341415 - attempt to listen for AT-SPI events and
>   present accessible information even if no accessible windows
>   are active when orca starts.
> * Work on bug 340849 - automatically enable desktop accessibility
>   if needed and remind the user to log out and log back in for
>   this to take effect.
> * Additions to and development of the test plan.
>
> ======================
> * Where can I get it ?
> ======================
>
> Source code:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/0.2/orca-0.2.4.tar.gz
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Will, Mike, Rich, and the Orca community
>
>
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