[Promotion-technology] [Fwd: Announcing orca-2.17.2]

[David Andrews]

>
>===============
>* 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.
>
>The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases.
>
>==================================
>* What's changed for Orca v2.17.2?
>==================================
>
>Orca 2.17.2 contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes since
>2.17.1.  We've been very busy, and are addressing feedback from our
>users and testers as fast as we can.  We thank you all for your feedback
>and help!  We also thank the users from the Orca User's Group meeting in
>Boston - many great ideas came out of that and we look forward to doing
>it again.
>
>2.17.2 - 05-Nov-2006
>
>* Updates to requirements and specifications documents.
>
>* Fair amount of work on Gecko.py script, though it is not at all ready
>   for compelling access to Firefox (and hence the web) yet.  Also did
>   a fair amount of work looking at flat review and filing a number of
>   bugs against the AT-SPI implementation in progress in Firefox 3.
>
>* Fix for bug 369292: gcalctool now speaks the new result when
>   the "=" button is activated.
>
>* Fix for bug 337063: Orca now supports an alternate .orca location via
>   the -u and --user-prefs-dir command line options.
>
>* Fix for bug 365939: reading of message list in Evolution now provides
>   more concise information for check box items.
>
>* For for bug 353422: Mapped vte application to gnome-terminal script
>   and also fixed the "backspace" problem in gnome-terminal.
>
>* Workaround for bug 368626: prevent gnome-panel from crashing and add
>   some defensive code to work in the case where there is no event
>   source in an at-spi event.
>
>* Fix for bug 338838: Orca now speaks "newline" only when moving by
>   character or word.
>
>* Fix for bug 358467: Orca now reads check items status
>   in "Users and groups" dialog of users-admin application.
>
>* Fix for bug 355733: SayAll function now works better for OpenOffice.
>
>* Fix for bug 364086: Orca no longer reports "paragraph 0 paragraph"
>   when you begin typing in a OpenOffice Calc cell.
>
>* Fix for bug 363801: Orca provides confirmation when dynamic row and/or
>   column headers are set.  In addition, column numbers in OpenOffice
>   Calc are now spoken as column letters.
>
>* Fix for bug 363807: Orca now reports the number of items in a table.
>
>* Fix for bug 321184: Orca now supports a custom pronunciation
>   dictionary.
>
>* Fix for bug 363802: Orca no longer says "cell" when navigating from
>   cell to cell in OpenOffice Calc.
>
>* Fix for bug 363796: Second press of a letter in learn mode now
>   provides the phonetic ("military") spelling of the letter.
>
>* Fix for bug 355525: Orca handled EMBEDDED_OBJECT_CHARACTERs in text
>   better.
>
>* Fix for bug 357063: If there are a bunch of repeated characters
>   (like the greater thans) on a line that also has text, Orca respects
>   the punctuation settings in Orca.  But, if the repeated characters
>   are on a line by themselves (i.e.  30 greater thans, nothing else),
>   Orca indicates their presence ("30 greater than characters")
>   regardless of the level of punctuation.
>
>* Fix for bug 344249: Orca reports menu mnemonics as part of the
>   "Where am I" functionality.
>
>* Fix for bug 348975: the state for radio buttons is now spoken prior
>   to the role.
>
>* Fix for bug 363423: Orca now speaks the "Applications" menu if it is
>   brought up while the focus is in a GAIM chat window.
>
>* Fix for bug 349956: Orca no longer causes the gedit Print Dialog to
>   slow down.
>
>* Fix for bug 361624: Flat review no longer fails to move to second
>   column of text in OOo Writer documents.
>
>* Fix for bug 357829: Use real active descendant of a table cell when
>   looking for locus of focus in flat review.
>
>* Fix for bug 341406: Orca now presents results when finding files.
>
>* Fix for bug 319783: Orca now speaks/brailles the insensitive states
>   of objects if they are insensitive.
>
>* Fix for bug 338111: Use new BrlAPI Python bindings if they exist.
>
>* Fix for bug 348693: Announcement of new mail in Evolution is now
>   toggleable via Insert-m.
>
>* Fix for bug 361670: flat review no longer fails after minimizing the
>   Orca main window.
>
>* Fix for bug 355893: Network Preferences "Port" label is now reported
>   by Orca.
>
>* New and updated translations (THANKS!):
>
>     et      Estonian             Ivar Smolin and Priit Laes
>     nb      Norwegian Bokmål     Kjartan Maraas
>     sv      Swedish             Daniel Nylander
>
>=====================
>* Where can I get it?
>=====================
>
>You can obtain Orca v2.17.2 in source code form at the following URL:
>
>http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.2.tar.bz2
>http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.2.tar.gz
>
> >From the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office,
>
>Willie Walker, Project Lead
>Mike Pedersen, User Interface Design
>Rich Burridge, Core Development and Scripting
>Lynn Monsanto, Core Development and Java Platform Support
>Michele Budris, Program Management
>
>
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