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Announcing Orca v2.26.1

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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 also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

 

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* What's changed for Orca v2.26.1?

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2.26.1 - 13-Apr-2009

 

General:

 

* Fix for bug #575921 - When I working with the gcalctool application,

Orca says too lot of the result of the mathematic operations

 

* Fix for bug #576037 - Bind F1 key to help page

 

* Fix for bug #576438 - Provide state change information for radio

buttons that require you to press space to select them

 

* Fix for bug #577330 - Detect whether speech dispatcher is installed

or not

 

OpenOffice:

 

* Fix for bug #577245 - Present paragraph-style information in

OpenOffice

 

* Fix for bug #578072 - Orca does not always present text attributes

in braille in OOo documents

 

Firefox/Thunderbird:

 

* Fix for bug #577239 - Cannot navigate by line through multi-line

HTML list items in Firefox/Thunderbird when arrowToLineBeginning is

False

 

* Fix for bug #577979 - Pressing Down Arrow from the middle of a

multi-line HTML list item initially moves to the beginning of the

line when arrowToLineBeginning is False

 

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

 

See also the overall translation status:

http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca

 

ar Arabic Djihed Afifi

bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov

cs Czech Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar

el Greek Jennie Petoumenou and Kostas Papadimas

hu Hungarian Gabor Kelemen

ml Malayalam Harivishnu and Ani Peter

ru Russian Nickolay V. Shmyrev

 

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* Where can I get it?

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You can obtain Orca v2.26.1 in source code form at the following:

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.26/orca-2.26.1.tar.gz

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.26/orca-2.26.1.tar.bz2

 

Enjoy!

 

The Orca Team

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