Hi, you need to build from source. It is not much dificulty,
depending on your distro
On 01/31/2011 10:40 PM, RiverWind wrote:
How difficult is it to obtain and install the new version of Orca?
I don't suppose that it can be done by virtue of an "apt" command?
Thanks in advance.
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Alejandro Leiva wrote:
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:27:37 +0100
To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
From: Alejandro Leiva <aleiva emergya es>
Subject: Announcing Orca v2.91.6
===============
* 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.
You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.
===================================
* What's changed for Orca v2.91.6?
===================================
2.91.6 - 31-January-2011
General:
* Fix for bug #641033 - Sanity check needed before sending
language
to speech dispatcher
* Fix for bug #640894 - always clear _gidleId when finished
calling
_dequeue
* Fix for bug #640218 - Handle pyatspi LookupError exceptions
better
* Fix for bug #640342 - Only defer to the toolkit script for an
object
if the app script is associated with a different toolkit
* Fix for bug #639876 - sometimes I cannot hear the name of the
window
when I press alt+tab
* Fix for bug #640194 - Post-event-manager-refactor sanity
checks
needed
* Fix for bug #640135 - Generator Cache can get cleared in the
midst
of getting the mnemonic, shortcut, and accelerator
* Fix for bug #640072 - Orca crashes receiving a message from
Pidgin
* Fix for bug #640132 - Orca sometimes becomes non-responsive
after
an app is quit
* Fix for bug #639992 - gdm-simple-greeter script did not have
its
import modified in recent refactor
* Fix for bug 639974 - Orca crashes announcing progress bar
updates
while pressing alt + tab
* Fix for bug #639668 - [Refactor] Eliminate the presentation
manager
and focus tracking presenter; create an event manager and
script
manager
* Fix for bug #639669 - [Refactor] Remove script mapping from
settings.py and clean up that code
* Fix for bug #639670 - [Refactor] Move default.py into the
scripts
module
* Fix for bug #639671 - [Refactor] Remove event recount and
COMM_FAILURE handling
* Fix for bug #639673 - Orca should support the creation and
use of
version-specific scripts for applications
* Work on bug #638970 - Loading a new profile takes longer than
ideal
* Fix for bug #639418, not marked for translation the
text-spelling
attribute name
* Fix for bug #638672 - Can't open the preferences dialog
WebKitGtk/Yelp 3:
* Fix for bug #640609 - Structural navigation should not kick
in when
the user is performing a search of WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #640591 - The 'system' voice is incorrectly used
after
structural navigation wraps in WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug 640500 - Orca presents too much info for some
links;
not enough info for others in WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug #640383 - Orca is not indicating caret position
or
selection for Headings in WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug #640451 - Focused WebKitGtk links are not
underlined
in braille
* Fix for bug #640383 - Orca is not indicating caret position
or
selection for Headings in WebKitGtk
* Fix for bug #640381 - Orca is using the default voice for
WebKitGtk
roles when it should use the system voice
* Fix for bug #640379 - Orca says 'read only' for paragraphs in
WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #640377 - Structural navigation sometimes fails
to work
with WebKitGtk content
* Fix for bug #607854 - Yelp+WebKit not working well
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Marek Cernocky
el Greek Marios Zindilis
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado
gl Galician Fran Diéguez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
uk Ukrainian Maxim V. Dziumanenko
zh_HK Chinese (Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao, Wei-Lun
Chao
zh_TW Chinese (Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao, Wei-Lun
Chao
======================
* Where can I get it ?
======================
You can obtain Orca v2.91.6 in source code form at the
following:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/2.91/orca-2.91.6.tar.gz
http:
//ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/2.91/orca-2.91.6.tar.bz2
Enjoy!
The Orca Team
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Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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