Re: [orca-list] Announcing Orca v3.7.4

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Great work.
So what do I need to compile this version on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.
I am getting an error on GTK+ not properly installed.
It asks for a version which seems to be not there.
Kindly help.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 01/15/2013 05:58 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> =============
> 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 and refreshable braille.
>
> =======================
> What's Changed in 3.7.4
> =======================
>
> New Commands (Unbound keybindings)
>
>    * Cycle amongst saved settings profiles
>
>    * Copy and append text from flat review to the clipboard
>
> Web Related
>
>    * Fix for bug 677615 - In Firefox www.google.com links not presented
>      in braille
>
>    * Fix for bug 675362 - Orca doesn't speak certain radio button labels
>      in Firefox
>
>    * Fix for bug 669377 - Cannot read web pages while file download
>      dialog present
>
>    * Always use the Collection interface for structural navigation and
>      page summary
>
>    * Do not try to infer labels from widgets deeply buried in table cells
>
>    * Changes to make Orca's generic label inference code work better with
>      Gecko
>
>    * Move the Gecko script to use Orca's label inference code
>
>    * When Gecko reports the end offset is -1, use the characterCount
>      instead
>
>    * Be sure we have a last input event before checking its time for live
>      region presentation
>
> Other Bug Fixes
>
>    * Fix for bug 684951 - Do not present 'icon' and 'canvas' rolenames if
>      verbosity is brief
>
>    * Fix for bug 591871 - Orca says "off" for all push buttons on the
>      LibreOffice toolbars and doesn't say "on" when it should
>
>    * Fix for bug 515817 - Flat review lands on blank line at end of text
>      area when navigating by previous word
>
>    * Get Orca doing a better job of presenting the Evolution Account
>      Assistant
>
>    * Handle caret offset of -1 when getting text for non-focused objects
>
>    * Fix for bug 600204 - Mouse Review Errors
>
>    * Fix a traceback in the braille monitor
>
>    * Change the debug level the script manager prints dead accessible
>      warnings
>
> Miscellaneous Cruft Removal
>
>    * Remove the GNOME2ish locusOfFocusChanged() method from the Evolution
>      script
>
>    * Remove the non-funcutioning Evolution new mail announcement
>
>    * Fix another GObject deprecation
>
>    * Remove several variables whose value we aren't using
>
>    * Remove some obsolete debugging methods
>
>    * Remove a check related to ROLE_HTML_CONTAINER from the Gecko script
>
> New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
>
>      an            Aragonese          Jorge PÃrez PÃrez
>      ar            Arabic             Khaled Hosny
>      el            Greek              Dimitris Spingos
>      es            Spanish            Daniel Mustieles
>      gl            Galician           Fran DiÃguez
>      lt            Lithuanian         Aurimas Äernius
>      pl            Polish             Piotr DrÄg
>      ru            Russian            Yuri Myasoedov
>      sl            Slovenian          Martin Srebotnjak, Matej UrbanÄiÄ
>
> ========
> Download
> ========
>
> http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.7/orca-3.7.4.tar.xz
>
> Enjoy!
> --joanie
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