Announcing Orca v2.19.6



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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.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.19.6?
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General:

* NOTICE: the automake requirement for Orca has been moved from 
  automake 1.7.2 to 1.9.

* Work on bug 364518 - Create a GUI interface to the pronunciation
  dictionary

* Fix for bug 409731 - Orca should speak text selected by the mouse

* Work on bug 415061 - regression test results should be repeatable

* Fix for bug 439191 - sayAll by sentence can position the text cursor
  in the wrong place when interrupted

* Additional fix for bug 449964 - Pass the key event information to
  the speech system to allow more advanced key echo handling (needed
  to eliminate a stack trace)

* Fix for bug 455230 - Read table cell row should insert column
  headers for non-text cells

* Fix for bug 456296 - Traceback in braille.py when doing a 
  "Select All" in gedit.

* Fix for bug 459080 - Some files missing from POTFILES.in (sorry!)

* Fix for bug 460215 - Include new Tango icons.  Many thanks to
  Stephen Brandt for his work here!  The icons look sharp.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug 456446 - Gecko autocompletes not always spoken

* Fix for bug 459618 - ARIA widgets should not consume navigation keys

Thunderbird:

* Fix for bug 460774 - Orca doesn't provide access to message being
  composed in Thunderbird

Java platform:

* Fix for bug 458142 - flat-review does not review Swing panels with
  titled borders

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

    es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                 Jorge Gonzalez
    fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
    lv      Latvian              Raivis Dejus
    pt_BR   Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
    sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.19.6 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.6.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.19/orca-2.19.6.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team





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