release-notes r1067 - in branches/gnome-2-24: . help/C

[davyd svn gnome org]

Author: davyd
Date: Fri Sep 12 16:29:42 2008
New Revision: 1067
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/release-notes?rev=1067&view=rev

Log:
2008-09-13  Davyd Madeley  <davyd fugro-fsi com au>

        * help/C/rnusers.xml:
        - ekiga
        * help/C/rna11y.xml:
        - orca


Modified:
   branches/gnome-2-24/ChangeLog
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml
   branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml

Modified: branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml	(original)
+++ branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rna11y.xml	Fri Sep 12 16:29:42 2008
@@ -67,5 +67,34 @@
 		</itemizedlist>
 	</sect2>
 
+	<sect2 id="rna11y.orca">
+		<title>Better Screenreading</title>
+
+		<para>
+			GNOME and its partners have worked hard to improve accessibility and
+			screenreading support for both GNOME &gnomeversion; and many popular third
+			party application.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+			Text-to-speech and braille device support is now vastly improved for
+			Java applications, Openoffice.org, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin,
+			GNOME's Help Browser and the GNOME Panel.
+			Users are now made available of unfocused dialogs
+			when switching to an application.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+			There has also been a lot of work to integrate GNOME's screen reading
+			technology with ARIA enabled web browsers. Starting with Mozilla Firefox.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+			Also new is automatic selection of the sythesized voice based on the
+			system language, support for verbalized links, echo by sentence and
+			optional tutorial messages.
+		</para>
+	</sect2>
+
 </sect1>
 <!-- vi:set tw=80 ts=2: -->

Modified: branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml	(original)
+++ branches/gnome-2-24/help/C/rnusers.xml	Fri Sep 12 16:29:42 2008
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
 		<para>
 			Empathy also supports XMPP/SIP audio and video conferencing as available
 			on the Nokia N800/N810 devices (video requires H264 codecs for GStreamer
-			to be installed).
+			to be installed). Empathy is a great companion to Ekiga, GNOME's
+			audio/video SIP client (see <xref linkend="rnusers.ekiga"/>).
 		</para>
 		<!-- SCREENSHOT of video chat -->
 		
@@ -93,6 +94,26 @@
 		<!-- another screenshot? -->
 	</sect2>
 
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.ekiga">
+		<title>Ekiga 3.0</title>
+
+		<para>
+			Ekiga is a fully featured SIP audio/video conferencing client for
+			GNOME. As part of GNOME &gnomeversion; we're proud to announce the
+			release of Ekiga 3.0.
+		</para>
+
+		<!-- SCREENSHOT -->
+
+		<para>
+			As well as a new interface that is centred around your phone book and
+			the presence of your contacts, Ekiga 3.0 features SIP presence support,
+			PBX line monitoring, better video codecs support (H.264, H.263,
+			MPEG-4 and Theora), accellerated video and optional fullscreen and
+			many SIP related improvements for robust conferencing.
+		</para>
+	</sect2>
+
 	<sect2 id="rnusers.nautilus">
 		<title>File Management</title>