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[orca-list] Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.23.5

FYI... Many thanks to everyone on this list for your help in contributing to this release. Your work helped make a big difference.

Will

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From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
Date: July 21, 2008 3:57:01 PM EDT
To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
Subject: Announcing Orca v2.23.5
Reply-To: William Walker Sun COM

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!

===============
* 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.

==================================
* 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

======================
* 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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