=============== * 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.
You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.27.4? ================================== LOTS of stuff. Please read the following carefully. 2.27.4 - 13-Jul-2009 General: * Fix for doo#9676 - Orca fails to launch. Make sure setting the PATH follows sh syntax and not bash. * Latent work for bgo#400729 - Orca should provide support for general audio. This adds some latent support for audio that gives people something to experiment with as soon as bgo#570658 is done. * Fix for bgo#561452 - Factor out included "louis" C extension. Orca 2.27.4 and beyond now require liblouis 1.6.2 and the liblouis 1.6.2 "louis" python module in order for contracted braille to work with Orca. See http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Braille for more information. * Fix for bgo#568696 - locus of focus changes when updating list of files in nautilus. * Much more work on bgo#570658 - Refactor the speech and braille generators. This refactor is almost complete. After a pass to simplify and consolidate the formatting strings, we should be ready to document how you can customize Orca presentation for yourself. * More work on bgo#575614 - Please add speakable characters: → and ←. * Fix for bgo#583199 - orca should not hang itself, or the desktop when brltty is killed. This fix allows BrlTTY to be killed, restarted, started before Orca, started after Orca, etc. This requires a fix in BrlTTY that will appear in a to-be-released version of BrlTTY (i.e., the fix is not in BrlTTY 4.0). Note that this change has caused us to change the default value of settings.enableBraille to False to prevent speech-only users from incurring unnecessary overhead. * Fix for bgo#584796 - Invoking the application specific preferences for Orca when in the Orca Quit dialog freezes speech. * Fix for bgo#585103 - Inconsistent behavior of flat review. * Provisional work on bgo#585417 - Allow pauses to be inserted in speech output. This provides code that will modify the speech formatting strings if orca.settings.useExperimentalSpeechProsody is True (the default value is True for this release). This allows users to experiment with the prosody work Hammer Attila has done before we finally commit to it. NOTE: to indicate things are still experimental, informational messages will be included on the command line where you run Orca. These informational messages say that pauses have been added to the formatting strings. When the integration is done, these messages will be removed. * Fix for bgo#585897 - Pronunciation substitution can miss words due to word delimiters * Fix for bgo#586385 - When I using where am I function with Openoffice.org Calc, the spoken row and column information are not marked for translation. * Fix for bgo#586580 - Orca repeats the coordinates of Calc cells. * Fix for bgo#588403 - Implement ability to route the mouse pointer without clicking. This implements support for routing the pointer to the current location (either the area under flat review or the locusOfFocus). * Fix for crash (no bug number) - Prevent stack trace when contracted braille is being used. The trace would also kill speech. OpenOffice/StarOffice: * Fix for bug #583811 - Doing a select all in OOo Writer causes Orca to say "selected" for each paragraph. Thunderbird: * Fix for bgo#584263 - When I compose or reply to a message with Thunderbird, the Ctrl+End key combination does not work. * Fix for bgo#584837 - Find dialog fails to move caret to desired location in Thunderbird. * Fix for bgo#568658 - Sometimes Orca announces the wrong subject in Thunderbird. Firefox: * Fix for bgo#584540 - Orca should not duplicate images and lines of text on facebook * Fix for bgo#585871 - WhereAmI info in FF doesn't include link text. * Fix for bgo#587794 - In some pages I cannot read using the Down Arrow key. * Fix for bgo#588344 - Missed text on a page in Firefox. New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): cs Czech Lucas Lommer es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and Jorge Gonzalez hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.27.4 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.4.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.4.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
