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* What is Orca?
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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.

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* What's changed for Orca v2.28.1?
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2.28.1 - 19-Oct-2009

General:

* Fix for bgo#596257 - Generator arguments are not passed along with
  _generateImage()

* Fix for bgo#596340 - Exception if no selection is given when
  choosing a language

* Fix for bgo#596364 - Create a script for the OpenSolaris Device
  Driver Utility

* Fix for bgo#596384 - Orca sometimes fails to speak a newly-focused
  table in certain OpenSolaris utilities

* Fix for bgo#598797 - Gnome-Terminal and VTE dump core when using Orca

Firefox/Thunderbird:

* Fix for bgo#592634 - The Gecko script's handling of caret navigation
  interferes when navigating editable messages in Thunderbird

* Fix for bgo#593520 - The Gecko script's getBottomOfFile needs to be
  more efficient

* Fix for bgo#593594 - Orca says "blank" when Firefox returns a bogus
  value for getTextAtOffset

* Fix for bgo#593596 - When the user Up Arrows to a line in Firefox
  which begins with a nested paragraph, Orca fails to present that
  line

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

    da          Danish               Kenneth Nielsen
    de          German               Simon Bienlein
    el          Greek                Jennie Petoumenou
    it          Italian              Luca Ferretti
    ru          Russian              Leonid Kanter

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.28.1 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.28/orca-2.28.1.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.28/orca-2.28.1.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team

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