Announcing Orca v2.21.90

As usual, great job by everyone on this release.  My favorite new 
community member is "Jon Orcauser".  He's been on a tear with testing 
patches and providing feedback.  I love seeing this!

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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.

The Orca v2.21.90 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.21.90 development 
release and requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME 
v2.21.90, including atk and gail.

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

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* What's changed for Orca v2.21.90?
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2.21.90 - 28-Jan-2008

General:

* Workaround for blocked bug #432308 - Problem with Evolution and
   threads always speaking "expanded 0 items". Adding in code to no
   longer speak the "0 items" if this is a table cell in the mail
   message header list with an expanded state.

* Fix for bug #482294 - Contextual information for gnome-terminal
   should only be shown in braille when you're on the first line.
   Orca now automatically enters flat review mode when you pan left
   past the beginning of the line containing the cursor.

* Fix for bug #503874 - Read by row in Evolution reads cell
   information incorrectly

* Fix for bug #506874 - Flat review should support status bars that
   have accessible text and children

* Fix for bug #508682 - Orca speak combobox item three time in Pidgin
   2.3.0

* Fix for bug #510019 - Orca can continue trying to dequeue events
   when queue is empty (thanks to Mike Gorse for this fix!)

* Fix for bug #511447 - Orca speaks passwords when they are been typed

OpenOffice:

* Fix for bug #510207 - key echo by word is broken in OOo Writer.

Firefox:

* Updates to the regression tests.

* Fix for bug #483023 - Orca should give the user the ability to
   move between objects in order.  You can now use Orca+Left and
   Orca+Right to move from object to object.  This should come
   in handy for "escaping" combo boxes and lists in forms after
   making your selection.  Because these new commands treat each
   object as if it were on a line by itself, users who have
   requested this type of line navigation will hopefully find that
   this new functionality also addresses some of those needs.

* Fix for bug #505742, Accommodate no ARIA markup for live regions

* Work on bug #506360 - find{Next,Previous}Line() should be more
   efficient

* Fix for bug #509394 - First focusable item in document frame not
   always spoken in FF3

* Fix for bug #509482 - Line navigation in FF wraps from top of file
   to bottom

* Fix for bug #509588 - Header information disappearing in ff3 on
   minefield page

* Fix for bug #509731 - braille for collapsed html combo boxes is not
   updating correctly

* Fix for bug #509809 - We should try to do a better job of guessing
   labels in poorly-coded forms

* Fix for bug #510478 - Character navigation in FF wraps from bottom
   of file to top

* Fix for bug #511118 - We sometimes get stuck on images that are also
   links

* Partial fix for bug #511893 - Live region performance
   enhancements. Fix for navigation performance issue.

* Fix for bug #512270 - orca crash on visiting www.gmail.com after login

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

     es      Spanish              Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
                                  Jorge Gonzalez
     nb      Norwegian Bokmã¥L    Kjartan Maraas
     sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander

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* Where can I get it ?
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You can obtain Orca v2.21.90 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.21/orca-2.21.90....
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.21/orca-2.21.90....

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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