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Announcing Orca v2.22.2

From:  Willie Walker <William.Walker-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Announcing Orca v2.22.2
Date:  Mon, 26 May 2008 12:41:32 -0400
Message-ID:  <483AE83C.5090900@sun.com>

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* 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.

The Orca v2.22.2 release is targeted for the GNOME v2.22.2 release and 
requires the latest at-spi/pyatspi infrastructure from GNOME v2.22.2, 
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 v2.22.2?
==================================

2.22.2 - 26-May-2008

General:

* Fix for bug #517387 - Orca should not read password out in gdm login
   window.  This just turns off key echo when the login window is up.
   The real fix belongs in gdm (see bug #529145).

* Fix for bug #519901 - Orca doesn't warn via braille that an
   inaccessible object got the focus.

* Fix for bug #522797 - Orca should not speak false "inaccessible"
   messages when switching applications.

* Fix for bug #523731 - Pidgin events interfere with app-specific
   Prefs dialog.

* Fix for bug #525644 - Pidgin buddy status changes cause Orca to
   display "cell" in braille.

* Fix for bug #525831 - isn't properly handling SIGTERM.

* Fix for bug #528507 - Escape doesn't exit "learn mode" if the active
   script changes.

* Fix for bug #528797 - gnome-speech inappropriately uses
   g_return_if_fail.  Only set "punctuation mode" if we can.

Evolution:

* Fix for bug #533499 - Evolution contacts not being spoken when you
   navigate them.

Firefox:

* Fix for bug #517736 - whereAmI does not handle text with embedded
   object characters

* Fix for bug #519416 - Zoomer loses focus when doing a web search.

* Fix for bug #527959 - Incorrect caret movement in Firefox 3 on
   certain Web pages.

* Fix for bug #530766 - (ff3) split headings not fully read when nav
   by structure.

* Fix for bug #533125 - Orca does not speak Search textbox in Firefox
   Download Manager if it is empty.

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

     hu      Hungarian            Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen

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* Where can I get it ?
======================

You can obtain Orca v2.22.2 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.22/orca-2.22.2.t...
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.22/orca-2.22.2.t...

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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