Re: [orca-list] [Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.19.5]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Whoa!  Somehow I hit send by accident.  Here's the URL:

    http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen

Will

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 15:12 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> FYI...Orca v2.19.5 went out today.  Congrats and thanks to everyone for
> their hard work and feedback.  There are just a few development releases
> left before GNOME 2.20 -- you can find the complete schedule here:
> 
> 
> Will
> 
> email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Announcing Orca
> v2.19.5"
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
> > To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
> > Subject: Announcing Orca v2.19.5
> > Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:18:56 -0400
> > 
> > ===============
> > * What is Orca?
> > ===============
> > 
> > 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 sponsored by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program
> > Office and progresses via continued engagement with end users and
> > contributions from wonderful community members.  Recently, we've had
> > the pleasure of contributions from Scott Haeger and Eitan Isaacson
> > who are being funded by the Mozilla Foundation for their contributions
> > to Orca.  Thanks Scott, Eitan, and the Mozilla Foundation!
> > 
> > Come join us -- help the community grow.  You can read more about Orca
> > at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.  See also the Orca road map at
> > http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Orca.
> > 
> > NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting
> > compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox.  We're making steady
> > progress on this front, both in Orca and with the Firefox team.  We're
> > getting there step by step, and we're receiving positive comments from
> > people who are having good success with where we are today.  We'll keep
> > going -- join us on the Orca list and share your comments, suggestions,
> > and questions.
> > 
> > ==================================
> > * What's changed for Orca v2.19.5?
> > ==================================
> > 
> > General:
> > 
> > * More work on the regression testing framework and tests
> > 
> > * Adjusted the uppercase pitch setting so that it is still noticeable
> >   but not quite so high
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 354468 - support bookmarked objects
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 354479 - Automatic presentation of "balloon" type
> >   messages
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 375396 - Orca failed to exit after stopping the full
> >   screen mag.
> > 
> > * Tweak for the fix for bug 376515 - Add GUI support for the new
> >   customizable text-attribute feature: avoid errors when ~/.orca is
> >   not present
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 382601 and bug 400720 - Orca should indicate selected
> >   text on the braille display and support accurate presentation of
> >   text attributes on the braille display
> > 
> > * Work on bug 395146 - Crash at start. Try to start an HTTP server on
> >   settings.httpServerPort. If this fails, retry
> >   settings.maxHttpServerRetries times, each time incrementing the
> >   server port number by 1. If we are still unable to start a server,
> >   just fail gracefully.
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 436888 - Include widget status information in speech and
> >   braille for flat review
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 438333 - Need to present progress bar activity
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 439191 - sayAll by sentence can position the text cursor
> >   in the wrong place when interrupted
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 442069 - Unneeded gnome-speech drivers not stopped when
> >   GUI setup window is dismissed
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 446881 - Orca braillegenerator code assumes that 
> >   what's in a table is a table cell
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 449964 - Pass the key event information to the speech
> >   system to allow more advanced key echo handling (thanks Tomas Cerha!)
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 449978 - Punctuation keys not echoed (thanks Tomas Cerha!)
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 450037 - Password field for gdm speaks characters you
> >   type instead of "star star star star"
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 450213 - should acc._narrow(Accessibility.Accessible) be
> >   a SEVERE error?
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 451531 - Orca failed to report the conversation message
> >   of pidgin.
> > 
> > Firefox:
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 409728 - Orca repeats mouse-selected text numerous times
> >   in Gecko
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 447191 - Firefox read page summary
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 448096 - Orca does not provide access to progress bars
> >   for FF3 downloads
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 449171 - Orca gets stuck in endless loops on woot.com
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 449232 - Firefox move to next large object additional
> >   tweak
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 453229 - Orca should honor the repeated character count
> >   setting in Firefox
> > 
> > Thunderbird:
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 449152 - Cannot create a new message in thunderbird
> >   while using Orca
> > 
> > OpenOffice:
> > 
> > * Fix for bug 450210 - StarOffice.py needs null-check for
> >   self.getFrame(event.source)
> > 
> > New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
> > 
> >     es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
> >                                  Jorge Gonzalez
> >     ta      Tamil                I. Felix
> >     vi      Vietnamese           Clytie Siddall and Nguyen Th�Ngoc Duy
> > 
> > =====================
> > * Where can I get it?
> > =====================
> > 
> > You can obtain Orca v2.19.5 in source code form at:
> > 
> > http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.5.tar.gz
> > http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.5.tar.bz2
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > The Orca Team
> > 
> > 
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