Announcing Orca v2.25.90



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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 v2.25.90 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.25.90 release.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.25.90?
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2.25.90 - 02-Feb-2009

General:

* Fix for bug #553678 - orca can act badly at login time

* Fix for bug #561548 - Orca locks up when closing some Pidgin
  conversations.

* Fix for bug #562060 - Speech should speak multi case strings as
  words.  Adjust the regexes used.

* Fix for bug #563128 - Text-based setup should offer option to
  automatically launch Orca on login

* Fix for bug #567428 -"readonly text" spoken when caret changes line.

* Fix for bug #568751 - Interaction with the punctuation preferences
  can cause a hang

* Fix for bug #568589 - braillegenerator adding image string
  versus braille.Component for table cells

* Fix for bug #568875 - Pressing "Apply" button in preferences dialog
  causes autostart option to be checked

* Fix for bug #569118 - Use C_() instead of Q_() with context NOTE:
  you need to install SUNWgnu-gettext and rerun your autogen.sh to
  work with this change on OpenSolaris.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug #537303 - Certain FF3 add-ons interfere with Orca's
  ability to provide access to content.

* Fix for bug #552965 - aria-valuetext ignored

* Fix for bug #567984 - Structural navigation needs to consider text
  within the document frame.

* Fix for bug #568467 - aria-describedby text spoken twice via
  Where Am I

* Fix for bug #568550 - Add default keybindings for navigating by
  landmarks

* Fix for bug #568631 - Orca does not update the position for
  same-page links which reference objects by name/id in Firefox 3.

* Fix for bug #569346 - No speech for image-only ARIA buttons and ARIA
  menu items

* Fix for bug #569835 - Orca should support the ARIA haspopup
  attribute

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

  NOTE - the fix for bug #569118 caused changes in every *.po file.

    ca       Catalan              Gil Forcada
    es       Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                  Jorge Gonzalez
    hu       Hungarian            Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
    ko       Korean               Changwoo Ryu
    sv       Swedish              Daniel Nylander

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.25.90 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.90.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.25/orca-2.25.90.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team


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