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Announcing Orca v2.23.5

Something must be special about this release because the lightening came, the hail came, yet the power stayed on long enough for me to upload the tarball.
It may be that it reflects contributions from community members who help show that open source can work: Halim Sahin, Mario Lang, Flavio Percoco Premoli, and (my favorite name) Jon Orcauser. Way to go! 

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* 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 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 v2.23.5 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.23.5 development release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.23.5, 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 v2.23.5?
==================================

Lots!

2.23.5 - 21-Jul-2008

General:

* Fix for bug #520596 - Orca should implement echo by sentence.

* Additional fix for bug #525656 - Orca needs to handle the new
  Pidgin typing status updates. This was needed due to a change
  in Pidgin.

* Fix for bug #533095 - Magnifier should turn off the system
  sprite/cursor/mouse when using full screen magnification.
  This requires a new gnome-mag release as well.

* Fix for bug #534022 - The Line-end symbol (46 123) should be
  configurable per application.

* Fix for bug #536825 - Allow bypass of Orca's keyboard commands.
  (The default keybinding is Orca+Backspace, but you can change
  that by specifying a new binding in the Orca Preferences dialog.)

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

* Fix for bug #538058 - The role for accessibles of ROLE_LIST_ITEM
  should not be spoken when the accessible is given focus.

* Fix for bug #538729 - In Orca preferences window /text attributes
  page the text attribute names not marked for translation.

* Fix for bug #538773 - Enable a quick 'smoke test' for whether Orca
  can see things via the AT-SPI.  Added a --list-apps option to print
  the list of known applications.

* Fix for bug #540937 - Orca doesn't check if the wnck python bindings
  are installed.

* Fix for bug #541094 - Back out 'silent focus' code.

* Fix for bug #541437 - Trying to quit Orca with the mouse doesn't
  give focus to the Quit dialog.

* Fix for bug #542260 - Orca should only keep track of
  active/non-defunct progress bars.

* Fix for bug #542262 - Orca should only echo words once when word
  echo is enabled.

* Fix for bug #542367 - Some key names not marked for translation.

* Fix for bug #542714 - Orca should indicate read-only text boxes.

* Fix for bug #542719 - Modified column header does not appear
  translated in Preferences - Key bindings page.
	
* Fix for bug #543775 - Orca uses incorrect voice sometimes in text
  setup.

Java:

* Much work on bug #435623 - Java Platform Metabug (see comment #6 in
  the bug for more information).

StarOffice/OpenOffice:

* Fix for bug #538053 - Word echo is not echoing the word typed
  when return is pressed while editing an Impress slide.

* Fix for bug #538056 - Orca should announce the "view" as part of
  the scroll pane context in Impress.

* Fix for bug #538064 - Orca should speak placeholder contents when
  that placeholder is given focus on an Impress slide.

* Fix for bug #538835 - Word echo is not echoing the word typed when
  return is pressed while creating an oowriter text document.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug #519515 - Support ARIA "required" state.  This adds
  support for presenting the fact that the required state has been
  set for the following types of ARIA widgets:

      - checkbox
      - gridcell
      - radiogroup
      - slider
      - spinbutton

  We'll add support for additional widgets over time.  In order to
  minimize verbosity, this state is not presented by default. To
  change this setting, set orca.settings.presentRequiredState to
  True in your user-settings.py or orca-customizations.py. In
  addition, we've added in support for customizing the strings
  used to present the required state. By default, "required" (or
  the localized form of it) will be used for both speech and
  braille.  Modify orca.settings.brailleRequiredStateString and/or
  orca.settings.speechRequiredStateString if you would prefer a
  different string.

* Fix for bug #530783 - Orca speaks an image map link's shape as part
  of the whereAmI info in FF3.

* Fix for bug #533109 - Orca doesn't speak alerts in Firefox.

* Fix for bug #535023 - Structural Navigation should be pulled out of
  Gecko and include more objects.

* Fix for bug #536455 - Contents of "Save In Folder" combo box not
  indicated in speech/braille in Firefox/Thunderbird.

* Fix for bug #537839 - Orca does not remember the last position
  on a webpage in firefox when using the back command.

* Fix for bug #539075 - Navigation problems with Firefox 3 & Aria
  example.

* Fix for bug #540187 - Wrapped structural navigation toggle. There
  is a new setting (wrappedStructuralNavigation) which controls
  whether or not we wrap around the document when structural
  navigation is used. The default value is True (i.e. do wrap). If
  you would prefer Orca not wrap, you can set it to False in your
  user-settings.py or your orca-customizations.py.

* Fix for bug #542324 - When launch Firefox 3.0 and pressing
  CTRL+Orca+space key, In Orca application preferences/keybindings
  page some structural navigation description not marked for
  translation.

* Fix for bug #542927 - Live region commands should be treated as
  structural navigation commands when in form fields in Firefox 3.

* Fix for bug #543496 - Problems with performing mouse clicks in
  Firefox.

Thunderbird:

* Fix for bug #533042 - Orca should be less verbose when reading
  autocompletes in Thunderbird.

* Fix for bug #536451 - Newly focused message not spoken after message
  deletion in Thunderbird.

* Fix for bug #536455 - Contents of "Save In Folder" combo box not
  indicated in speech/braille in Firefox/Thunderbird.

* Fix for bug #540039 - Newly focused message not spoken after message
  deletion in Thunderbird if a message is open.

* Fix for bug #540407 - Problems reading messages in Thunderbird
  when arrowToLineBeginning is False.

* Fix for bug #540833 - Word echo not working in Thunderbird address
  fields if autocompletion is not active.

* Fix for bug #541018 - Mail messages not automatically read when
  opened in Thunderbird.

* Fix for bug #543024 - Important header fields for received
  messages not spoken when tabbing through headers in Thunderbird
  message view.

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

    es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                 Jorge Gonzalez
    gl      Galician             Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
    hu      Hungarian            Atilla Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
    nb      Norwegian Bokmål     Kjartan Maraas
    oc      Occitan              Yannig Marchegay
    ru      Russian              Nickolay V. Shmyrev and Anatol Kamynin

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* Where can I get it ?
======================

You can obtain Orca v2.23.5 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.5.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.23/orca-2.23.5.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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