Announcing Orca v2.23.90

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

One of the more exciting thing for me this release is the fact that the
Orca community continues to grow.  In particular, the mysterious Jon
Orcauser continues to contribute in increasingly sophisticated ways, and
more and more people are testing patches and using bugzilla.

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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 generous contributions
from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful community members.

The Orca v2.23.90 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.90 development
release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME
v2.23.90, including atk and gail.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.23.90?
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2.23.90 - 18-Aug-2008

General:

* Use DBus only if DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is defined so as to avoid
  unexpected launching of a DBus daemon

* Fix for bug #536985 - Orca no longer reads applets on the panel

* Fix for bug #540123 – Tutor help messages with orca.  (Many many
  thanks to Mesar Hameed for his hard work here and to Hammer Attila
  for testing)

* Fix for bug #540187 - Wrapped structural navigation toggle.  (Thanks
  Mesar!)

* Fix for bug #546277 - Traceback when accessing "User Privileges" tab
  of "Account Properties" dialog of "User Settings".

* Fix for bug #546660 - The speaking of progress bars should be turned
  on by default

* Fix for bug #547938 - Magnifier should follow Alt+Tab

* Fix for bug #547895 - make distcheck fails with intltools 0.40.0

Firefox/Thunderbird:

* Work on bug #535178 - In Gecko, we should get the needed text for
  the speech and braille contexts while building up the line.  Also
  fixes bug #527819 – Orca sometimes says "list" between items when
  the list is on a single line in FF3.

* Fix for bug #535183 - Word navigation is inconsistent in Thunderbird
  and Firefox.

* Work on bug #542833 - Flat review in Thunderbird is largely broken.
  This part of the fix should stop us from hanging if flat review is
  invoked with a message list with thousands of messages and should
  ensure that we don't review things that are not actually on the
  screen. There is still more work that needs to be done on this bug.

* Fix for bug #546355 - The ARIA gmail interface is largely unusable
  with Orca

* Fix for bug #546895 - Braille context includes previous menu item in
  HTML combo boxes.

* Fix for bug #547345 - Can't always "Alt+Tab" back into Thunderbird
  or Firefox

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

    ar      Arabic               Djihed Afifi
    es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                 Jorge Gonzalez
    fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
    gl      Galician             Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
    pt      Portuguese           Duarte Loreto
    ru      Russian              Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin
    th      Thai                 Theppitak Karoonboonyanan

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.23.90 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.90.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.90.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team