news 28 Posted May 4, 2009 =============== * 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 also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ================================== * What's changed for Orca v2.27.1? ================================== 2.27.1 - 04-May-2009 General: * Much work to handle the transition from subversion to git. (Willie Walker, Olav Vitters, Mesar Hameed) * Updated script writer's guide -- the document lives in docs/doc-set/internals.html. (Willie Walker) * Add setting to disable the pyatspi GIL idle handler: useGILIdleHandler. This change is made in response to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576954 where it appears as though the GIL idle handler in pyatspi is causing consumers of pyatspi (e.g., Orca and accerciser) to start consuming 100% of a CPU when the machine is idle. We're pretty sure the GIL handler is not necessary, so this change gets rid of it for the 2.27.1 development build of Orca. If we see that users notice strange lock ups, however, we may need to change things back. (Willie Walker) * Adjust debug utilities to print to console and debug log. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bgo#570952 - Orca should be able to run with AT-SPI/D-Bus. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bgo#573535 - Orca should use the 16x16 pixels application icon for Main and Preferences windows. (Stephen Brandt) * Fix for bgo#575921 - When I working with the gcalctool application, Orca says too lot of the result of the mathematic operations. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bug #576037 - Bind F1 key to help page. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bug #576438 - Provide state change information for radio buttons that require you to press space to select them. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bgo#577239 - Cannot navigate by line through multi-line HTML list items in Firefox/Thunderbird when arrowToLineBeginning is False. (Joanmarie Diggs) * Fix for bug #577330 - Detect whether speech dispatcher is installed or not. (Tomas Cerha) * Fix for bgo#577977 - provide speech feedback for "repeat last find" in Gedit. (Nolan Darilek) * Fix for bgo#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. (Joanmarie Diggs) * Fix for bgo#580423 - Remove deprecated libgnomeui dependency. Use DBus org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout instead of gnome.ui.master_client().request_save. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bgo#580329 - Use show_uri() to display help window. (Vincent Legoll) OpenOffice: * Fix for bgo#577245 - Present paragraph-style information in OpenOffice. (Willie Walker) * Fix for bgo#578072 - Orca does not always present text attributes in braille in OOo documents. (Joanmarie Diggs) New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): See also the overall translation status: http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko zh_CN Simplified Chinese Aron Xu ===================== * Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain Orca v2.27.1 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.1.tar.gz http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.27/orca-2.27.1.tar.bz2 Enjoy! The Orca Team _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
