ANNOUNCE: LSR 0.5.2

["Peter Parente" <parente gmail com>]

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* What is LSR?
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The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) project is an open source effort to
develop an extensible assistive technology for the GNOME desktop
environment. The goal of the project is to create a reusable
development platform for building alternative and supplemental user
interfaces in support of people with diverse disabilities.

LSR 0.5.2 is a point release for GNOME 2.19.2.

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* What's changed?
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* Firefox specification. Details about our planned support for Rich Document
 Browsing, Accessible Rich Internet Applications, and Web Application
 Scripting can be found in our LSR Web UI specification working draft at
 http://www.gnome.org/~parente/lsr/web/. Please send comments to the
 LSR mailing list (lsr-list gnome org).

* Firefox improvements. Scott Haeger has been hard at working implementing many
 features of the specification already, namely:

 * Automatic mode switching. Switches to the most specific reading mode
   as you navigate. Can be turned off to allow manual switches. Currently
   supports document mode and widget mode (forms and Web applications). Table
   modes coming soon.

 * Element navigation hotkeys. Visited links, unvisited links, paragraphs,
   headings, images, forms, form controls, sections, radio buttons, buttons,
   tables, lists, list items, ARIA landmarks, and many more.

 * Container navigation hotkeys. Skip over container. Go to container.

 * Navigation by relation. Go to a different kind of element. Go to a similar
   kind of element.

 * Navigation by landmark. Uses new W3C ARIA markup to navigate to main
   content, secondary content, navigation, search, notes, content info, and so
   on.

 * Document-centric Where am I? Reports current element, read progress through
   document, etc. For example, "heading level 2, Welcome, 1 of 10 in
   document. 4 percent of document read."

 * Settings. Enable or disable automatic mode changes. Configure whether the
   point of regard can easily leave containers (e.g. the document). More
   coming soon. See the spec.

 See the Firefox section of the LSR User Guide at
 http://live.gnome.org/LSR/UserGuide/Firefox
 for more details. (Keep in mind what is implemented and noted on the wiki
 lags slightly behind the spec.)

* Improvements to bookmarks. The bookmark feature has been extended to support
 any input device (e.g. bookmarks for Braille buttons), comparison of the
 current point of regard to any bookmarked location, and comparison of any
 bookmarked location to the root of the foreground window.

* Login. Improvements to handling of the gdm login screen.

* SpeechDispatcher updates to work with version 0.6.2.

* BrlTTY updates to work with forthcoming version 3.8.0.

* Improvements to the search dialog. It's now more responsive, closes and opens
 more reliably, and so forth.

* Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes. See http://tinyurl.com/228txj for the
 complete list.

Translations

* ar(Djihed Afifi)
* en_GB(David Lodge)
* es(Jorge Gonzalez)
* nb(Kjartan Maraas)
* or(Subhransu Behera)
* pa(A S Alam)
* sv(Daniel Nylander)

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* Where can I get more information?
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Please visit http://live.gnome.org/LSR for more information about the
project and to download LSR.

Thanks to all the LSR users, developers, and commentators who
contributed to this release including Randy Horwitz, Eddie
Cardoshinsky, Scott Haeger, Eitan Isaacson, Luiz Sergio Rocha, George
Kraft, Larry Weiss, and Cathy Laws.