=============== * 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 contributions from wonderful community members.
You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.18.0, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.18.0? ================================== * See http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes/Orca for a summary of what's changed since Orca v1.0.0. The remainder of these bullet items cover what's changed since Orca v2.17.92. NOTE to translators: I'm still working on a summary of your hard work so your names will be in the release notes. * Much more work on Gecko.py support for Firefox. Firefox support still has a ways to go, both inside Firefox itself and inside Orca. * Much more work on Gecko.py support for Thunderbird. Thunderbird support still has a ways to go, both inside Thunderbird itself and inside Orca. We recommend using Evolution at this time. * Implemented GNOME GOAL #3 - removed "Application" from Categories in desktop file. * Work to make sure Orca still works with the latest gnome-mag release. * Updated man page. * Fix for bug 413457 to prevent Orca from speaking various names for the "-" character twice in a row in German. * Adjusted StarOffice.py to prevent a traceback in face of some regressions in oowriter. * Support for better filtering of events in debug logs. * New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): ar Arabic Khaled Hosny and Djihed Afifi bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov, Rostislav Raykov, Vladimir Petkov, and Iassen Pramatarov ca Catalan Gil Forcada and Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó de German Hendrik Richter and Jochen Skulj dz Dzongkha Pema Geyleg en_GB English/British David Lodge and Gareth Owen fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela fr French Jonathan Ernst and Stéphane Raimbault gu Gujarati Ankit Patel hu Hungarian Kálmán Kéménczy and Gabor Kelemen it Italian Luca Ferretti ko Korean Changwoo Ryu lt Lithuanian $-1¡½ygimantas Beru ka and Gintautas Miliauskas mk Macedonian Jovan Naumovski pt Portuguese Duarte Loreto pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Raphael Higino, Og Maciel, Jonh Wendell and Fábio Nogueira ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev sv Swedish Daniel Nylander uk Ukrainian Maxim Dziumanenko zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.17.92 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.0.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.0.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
