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[orca-list] Announcing Orca v2.21.0

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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 wonderful community members.
This is an unstable release meant to be an early milestone for GNOME 2.22. We will be releasing a stable Orca v2.20.1 release in a couple weeks for GNOME 2.20.1. There are differences between the stable and unstable versions as noted in the "What's changed" section below.
NOTE: Our next release for GNOME 2.21 will be for GNOME 2.21.1. In it, we plan to integrate the first pass at migrating Orca to the pyatspi bindings introduced in GNOME 2.20. We're doing our best to be thorough about it, but we expect there will be problems. We're doing it early, though, so as to give us ample time to shake out and fix issues early in the GNOME 2.22 development cycle. 

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.21.0?
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These changes represent what has been made on the Orca SVN trunk since the Orca v2.19.6 release on 29-July. Many of these changes 
also went into the Orca v2.20.0 release formed from the Orca SVN
gnome-2-20 branch. Things marked with a '+' indicate stuff that is not planned for a Orca 2.20.x release. Everything else should appear in a Orca 2.20.x release. 

General:

* Work on bug 356068 - Provide a command for identifying the default
 button within a dialog

* Fix for bug 364518 - Create a GUI interface to the pronunciation
 dictionary

* Fix for bug 455308 - Output module and voice selection with Speech
 Dispatcher backend
* Fix for bug 456970 - Orca says "0 items" for tree tables that use NODE_CHILD_OF relationship 

* Fix for bug 457198 - Orca shouldn't exit if user-settings import
 fails
* Fix for bug 461719 - gnome-mud script failed at import (Thanks Javier!!!) 

* Fix for bug 462650 - Traceback when using whereAmI in Evolution New
 Contact dialog

* Fix for bug 462475 - crash due Non-ASCII characters in
 ~/.orca/user-settings.py file

* Fix for bug 464855 - orca speaks/brailles scroll bar arrows as
 anonymous "push buttons"

* Work on bug 465989 - Adding panel applets.  Manage the presentation
 of images in tables better
* Fix for bug 466500 - Speech Dispatcher backend crashes with older SD versions (Thanks Tomas Cerha!) 

* Fix for bug 466725 - Traceback when using SayAll in Gedit when text
 lacks sentence punctuation

* Fix for bug 467425 - Orca should default to an empty pronunciation
 dictionary

* Fix for bug 467425 - Orca causes pygtk application to generate
 GtkWarning messages

* Fix for bug 467563 - Speech Dispatcher backend crashes in text setup
 (Thanks Tomas Cerha!)

* Work on bug 468098 - The whereAmI implementation doesn't always
 match the whereAmI spec

* Fix for bug 469615 - A few lingering i18n issues

* Fix for bug 469786 - Braille verbosity setting not reset

* Fix for bug 471220 - Gaim's prefixChatMessage setting should have
 option to only prefix non-focused tabs
* Fix for bug 472407 - Orca doesn't always announce new messages in unfocused tabs in Pidgin 

* Fix for bug 472962 - Trailing space at end of message/string
* Fix for bug 473420 - Orca speaking an extra "seconds" for the Preferences dialog
* Fix for bug 473422 - Orca has traceback when giving focus to the pidgin application 

* Fix for bug 473991 - Orca doesn't announce autocompleted user names
 in Pidgin

* Fix for bug 477683 - Orca failed to bring full screen mag up

* Fix for bug 480331 - tree table headers should not be repeated in
 braille

* Fix for bug 480746 - Labels for panels should not be repeated in
 braille

* Fix for bug 481101 - getClickCount() sometimes returns bogus values

* Fix for bug 481343 - Initial top/left/bottom/right zoomer position
 settings don't match screen

+ Much work on the test harness and many new regression tests.
 The tests are now Macaroon-based.

+ Fix for bug 458150 - flat-review should present slider orientation

+ Fix for bug 462627 - Refactor orca_prefs.py

+ Fix for bug 464754 - Pronunciation dictionary checks should be
 case insensitive

+ Fix for bug 469098 - Orca should indicate when a new chat window/tab
 has appeared in Pidgin
+ Fix for bug 472907 - Characters "°" and "º" shouldn't have the same description 

+ Fix for bug 472978 - Short Braille and spoken word for "dial" should
 be different messages

+ Fix for bug 476639 - Remove requirement of annotating accessible
 objects

Firefox:

* Fix for bug 457988 - Firefox SSL Dialogs are not read

* Fix for bug 460284 - Orca should not allow the user to arrow into
 the FF3 status bar

* Fix for bug 461620 - Orca doesn't speak find results in FF3 when
 focus is on Next/Previous buttons.

* Fix for bug 466764 - Orca doesn't provide access to alerts that
 appear when page is loading in FF3

* Fix for bug 468633 - No output when tabbing to ARIA slider

* Fix for bug 469686 - Sanity check needed in
 gecko.getHeadingLevel/getNodeLevel

* Fix for bug 470332 - Can no longer arrow to push buttons in FF3

* Fix for bug 471537 - We need to find a way to identify truly
 "focusable" elements in FF3

* Fix for bug 471955 - Orca does not provide access to state changes
 in HTML radio buttons in FF3

* Work on bug 472029 - Cannot arrow into autocompletes in HTML forms
 if Orca is controlling the caret

* Fix for bug 472345 - Cannot arrow out of entries in FF3 if text is
 inserted via javascript

* Work on bug 472377 - Need to fix braille for radio buttons and
 checkboxes in HTML content

* Fix for bug 473585 - Caret not being set to ARIA listbox when
 navigating to it

* Fix for bug 475956 - Orca sometimes "guesses" index.htm* as the
 base name for a link in FF3

* Fix for bug 476786 - whereAmI fails in Firefox menus

* Fix for bug 478204 - Orca should handle navigation around HTML
 focusable lists better

* Fix for bug 480021 - Need to handle list items in whereAmI and
 better address XUL list items

* Fix for bug 481398 - Absence of a defined speech server causes Orca
 to fail to display its Preferences dialog

* Fix for bug 481907 - Traceback in Gecko.locusOfFocusChanged()

+ Fix for bug 459584 - ARIA widget labels not read correctly

+ Fix for bug 462156 - No announcements for ARIA trees

+ Fix for bug 462509 - ARIA dialogs are not being announced

+ Fix for bug 471885 - ARIA trees should output only state change if
 item is unchanged

+ Fix for bug 471878 - ARIA widgets should not echo characters during
 traversal using arrows

+ Fix for bug 475177 - Support new AT-SPI event name format

Thunderbird:

* Fix for bug 468765 - Orca does not provide access to shortcuts for
 FF3 or Thunderbird menu items

OpenOffice/StarOffice:

* Fix for bug 469367 - Orca StarOffice script not properly announcing
 (potential) indentation in OOo Writer

+ Fix for bug 462256 - Orca doesn't speak/braille anything when going
 to the 2nd screen in the OOo Presentation startup wizard

+ Fix for bug 465087 - Orca speaks "Available fields panel" too
 many times with OOo sbase Tables wizard

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

   ar      Arabic               Djihed Afifi
   bg      Bulgarian            Alexander Shopov
   da      Danish               Kenneth Nielsen
   de      German               Jochen Skulj
   ca      Catalan              Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó
   el      Greek                Nikos Charonitakis
   es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                Jorge Gonzalez
   fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
   fr      French               Claude Paroz and Stéphane Raimbault
   it      Italian              Luca Ferretti
   ja      Japanese             Takeshi Aihana
   lt      Lithuanian           Gintautas Miliauskas and Romas MaÅŸeika
   lv      Latvian              Raivis Dajus
   mk      Macedonian           Jovan Naumovski
   nb      Norwegian Bokmã¥L    Espes Stefansen and Kjartan Maraas
   pt      Portuguese           Duarte Loreto
   pt_BR   Brazilian Portuguese Djavan Fagundes and Raphael Higino
                                and Tiago Melo Casal
   ru      Russian              Anatoly Kamynin and Maxim Dziumanenko
   si      Sinhala              Danishka Navin
   sq      Albanian             Laurent Dhima
   sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander
   th      Thai                 Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
   uk      Ukranian             Maxim Dziumanenko
   vi      Vietnamese           Clytie Siddall

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.21.0 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.21/orca-2.21.0.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.21/orca-2.21.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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