Announcing Orca v2.17.3
- From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
- Subject: Announcing Orca v2.17.3
- Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:53:33 -0500
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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 contributions from
wonderful community members.
The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases,
but should also work well on the GNOME 2.16.x releases.
NOTE ON FIREFOX SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting
compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.17.3,
the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox
teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.
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* What's changed for Orca v2.17.3?
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* Implementation of RFE 373566: Added support to switch between
desktop and laptop bindings. Also added support for allowing the
Caps Lock key to act as the Orca modifier.
* Added feature to the preferences dialog to present the key bindings
as progress towards RFE 354970. Many thanks to Jorge Sand�for
this work!
* Implementation of RFE 354463 - The "Find" command is now working,
with the exception of bug 381391. Many thanks to Joanie Diggs for
her hard work on this!
* Implementation of RFE 376002: Added command line options to tell
Orca to start with speech, braille, and/or magnification. This
is mostly to aid things such as accessible installs and logins.
* Work on RFE 371122: much of the "Where am I" command has been
implemented, though we're still testing and refining it.
* A fair amount of work has been done on the Gecko script for Firefox 3.
Please note this is still a work in progress and is still somewhat
unstable. The Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly on the
support and are still targetting Firefox 3 for compelling web
access.
* Continued work on identifying (and resolving when possible)
accessibility issues in other applications. Please do a search on
the "orca" component at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org for summaries containing the "[blocked]"
string to get a list.
* In the callback for the Cancel button on the Orca Preferences
window, the code has been adjusted to destroy that window, so that
the next time the user displays the Preferences dialog, all of the
settings will reflect the current running state rather than how the
user left the GUI components before hitting the Cancel button.
* Fix for bug 372808: Orca now reports the appropriate header
information when tabbing between tables.
* Fix for bug 377085: family-name text attribute are no longer
malformed for multi-word family names.
* Implementation of RFE 377955: Suggested additions to pronunciation
dictionary.
* Fix for bug 376347: Orca no longer speaks new-line in the
Evolution menu bar.
* Fix for bug 372964: Added text-attribute settings.
* Fix for bug 376006: Handle minimum increment value of 0.0 when
calculating decimal places to present for sliders.
* Fix for bug 358467: Mapped the time-admin to the users-admin
script so that Orca can correctly read the table of time servers.
* Change for bug 364529. Initial value in the Preferences Glade file
for pitch is now 5.0 and not 9.0. Also allow voice styles to be
undefined. The hypertext link voice will now initially derive
its values from the default voice settings.
* Partial fix for bug 356060: Provide access to tree item level and
state in OOo Navigator.
* Defensive fix for bug 353432: Orca no longer announces name changes
for objects who tell us their name has changed when it really
hasn't.
* Work on bug 363815: Implement the ability to have application
specific settings.
* Fix for bug 364452: make sure Orca's name shows up as "orca" and not
"-c" in at-poke.
* Fix for bug 319666: Orca now announces "0 items" when encountering
various empty objects.
* Fix for bug 381653: Orca now announces the new state of a checkbox
when it is changed inside a table cell.
* More work on the specification and regression test suite.
* New and updated translations (THANKS!):
et Estonian Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
hu Hungarian K��K�nczy and Gabor Kelemen
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.17.3 in source code form at the following URL:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.3.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.3.tar.gz
>From the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office,
Willie Walker, Project Lead
Mike Pedersen, User Interface Design
Rich Burridge, Core Development and Scripting
Lynn Monsanto, Core Development and Java Platform Support
Michele Budris, Program Management
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